Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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 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.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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