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 GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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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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Music 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.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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