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.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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