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.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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