What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAAnd when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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.
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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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