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.
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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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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