An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace 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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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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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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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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