It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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