Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
JERRY GARCIAIf you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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 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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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