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 GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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