The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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