The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
JERRY GARCIATo get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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 mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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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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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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 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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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