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 GARCIAThe 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 GARCIAThe 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.
JERRY GARCIAListening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
JERRY GARCIAWe are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
JERRY GARCIATo me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
JERRY GARCIAMusic goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
JERRY GARCIAGetting 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 GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIA