Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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