What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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