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.
JERRY GARCIAEvery silver lining has a touch of grey.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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?’
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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