Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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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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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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