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 GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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