With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.
Jerry GarciaSometimes 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.
Jerry GarciaThe world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.
Jerry GarciaMusic goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. 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. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
Jerry Garcia