We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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