You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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