I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
JERRY GARCIAI equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
-
-
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
JERRY GARCIA -
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
JERRY GARCIA -
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIA -
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIA -
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA -
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIA -
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIA -
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
JERRY GARCIA -
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?’
JERRY GARCIA -
You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIA -
It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIA -
American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIA -
… 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.’
JERRY GARCIA -
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIA -
The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
Nothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIA -
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIA -
It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIA -
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIA -
The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIA