If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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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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