It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIAFor me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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