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.
JERRY GARCIAIn this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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