For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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 result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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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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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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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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