American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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