There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
JERRY GARCIAListening. 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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