Music 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.
JERRY GARCIAWe need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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 know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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 were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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