We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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