A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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 play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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