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 GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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 need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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