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.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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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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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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To 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.
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