Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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 were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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