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.
JERRY GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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The 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.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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 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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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