Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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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… 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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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