We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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