What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAEach person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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