I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAFor me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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