What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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