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.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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