You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIA… 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.’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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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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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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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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… 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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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