Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIARight now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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 don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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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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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 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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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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