We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIAI’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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