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 GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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 goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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