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 GARCIAMagic is what we do, music is how we do it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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