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 GARCIAI read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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