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.
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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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 mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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