If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
JERRY GARCIAWe’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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