The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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