I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAEvery silver lining has a touch of grey.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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