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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.

Jerry Garcia

I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIA

Blow Chain Going High Maybe Mountain Some Strange Wind
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIA

Anywhere Different Effort Guitar Just Lead See Try
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIA

Catch Change Consciousness Everything Happen Important Matter Mistsly Thing
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
JERRY GARCIA

Consciousness Evil Get Good Life Manifestation Reject Try Whole
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIA

Be Incredibly Pathetic Somebody Something Us
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Boredom Lock Nothing Point Reference Room Save Ultimately View
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
JERRY GARCIA

Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIA

Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIA

Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Listen Music What
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIA

Get Great Human might Race Reach Sense
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Bit Context First Fragment Human Moral Piece Rather Religion Superstructural
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?’
JERRY GARCIA

Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop

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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