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.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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