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 GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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