… 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.’
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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