It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
JERRY GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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People 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.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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