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 GARCIAI mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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 Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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