For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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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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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 for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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