Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIAYou don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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