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 GARCIAListen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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 result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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