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.
JERRY GARCIAPeople 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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