For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAThe bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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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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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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