America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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