We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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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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