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 GARCIAThe thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Sometimes 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.
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