As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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 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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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