I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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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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