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.
JERRY GARCIAI know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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