If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
JERRY GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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