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 GARCIATo me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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What 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.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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