Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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What 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.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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 thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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