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!
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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 bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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