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.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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