I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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 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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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