We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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