I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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 like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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 would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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