We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
JERRY GARCIAThe bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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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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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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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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