You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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