In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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.
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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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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 know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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