The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
JERRY GARCIAAs 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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