If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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