It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
JERRY GARCIAThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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 think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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