The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
JERRY GARCIAMusic goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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 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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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