Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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