I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAToo much of a good thing is just about right
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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?
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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 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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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