Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAAnd as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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