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 GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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The 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.
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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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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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