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 GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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