American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAI think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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