If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAPeople may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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 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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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.
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