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.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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