Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
JERRY GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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