Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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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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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.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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