American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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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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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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