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 GARCIAAs long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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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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