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.
JERRY GARCIASee, 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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We 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.
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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 world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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