And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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To 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.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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