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 GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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