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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

Jerry Garcia

We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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We 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.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

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