I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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People 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.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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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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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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