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.
JERRY GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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