The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIAAnd 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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 pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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