American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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We’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.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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