Nothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIASometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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