Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAYou listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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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 bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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