All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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