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 GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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