I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIAAn organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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