American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And 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.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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