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Jerry Garcia

We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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 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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Blow Chain Going High Maybe Mountain Some Strange Wind
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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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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?’
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Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop
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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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