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.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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