Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
JERRY GARCIAYou 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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