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 GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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