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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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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We 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?
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It’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.
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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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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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