Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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 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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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 think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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