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 GARCIAPartly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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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 were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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