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?’
JERRY GARCIAMusic 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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