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.
JERRY GARCIAPeople may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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