We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
JERRY GARCIATo 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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