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.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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