I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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