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.
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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 mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIA