Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
JERRY GARCIATruth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIANobody 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 GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
JERRY GARCIATo 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.
JERRY GARCIANothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
JERRY GARCIAThe world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIA