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.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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 implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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