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.
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I 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.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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