We 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?
JERRY GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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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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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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In 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.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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