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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Jerry Garcia

And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIA

Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
JERRY GARCIA

Complete Cyberspace Discussion Holographic InterAction Mind Model Phenomenon Universe
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Characterized Excuse Good Know Life Pain Particularly Think Unhappy
Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIA

Ach All Anyone Bandstand Big Cat Hand Must Right Sweat
And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
JERRY GARCIA

Bring Grandparent Kid Lot Parents People Stuff
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
JERRY GARCIA

Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
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 GARCIA

Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
JERRY GARCIA

Get Light Thunder Will
In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
JERRY GARCIA

Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Bliss Celebration Encapsulate Good Live Lot Magic Music Myth Need Power Religion
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Any Kind Power Revolution Struggle Think Want War
I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIA

Anywhere Different Effort Guitar Just Lead See Try
I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
JERRY GARCIA

Audience Demographic Intension never Now Our Out Really Stretch
There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIA

Bliss Fun Joy Need Real Ritual
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIA

Crowd Dead Grateful Invent

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