It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
JERRY GARCIAIf 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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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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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order 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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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 something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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