The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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