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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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