America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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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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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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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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