There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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?’
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The 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.
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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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 do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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