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.
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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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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