We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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