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.
JERRY GARCIADone time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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