I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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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 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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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