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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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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.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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 implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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