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 GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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