I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
JERRY GARCIAI Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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