You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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