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.
JERRY GARCIAEverything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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The 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.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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