It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
JERRY GARCIAGetting 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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