And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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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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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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