… 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.’
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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