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 GARCIANothing left to do but smile.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The 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.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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