American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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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 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 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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