The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Listening. 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.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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