The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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