You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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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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