Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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.
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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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