I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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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