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 GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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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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