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 GARCIAWe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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 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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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