Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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