I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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