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.
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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