American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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 like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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