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.
JERRY GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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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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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.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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