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 GARCIAWhistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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