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 GARCIAPeople 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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