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 GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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