To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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