I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAFor me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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