American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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