The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIAAn organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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