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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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