And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIAThe bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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