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.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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