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 GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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I 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.
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