American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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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 need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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