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 GARCIAIf we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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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 thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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