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.
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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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I 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.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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