I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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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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