What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
JERRY GARCIAA simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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… 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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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