If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
JERRY GARCIARight now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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