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.
JERRY GARCIAI think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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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.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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