American society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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