People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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