Grateful Dead

'I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.' - Anaïs Nin

'That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.' - Marguerite Duras

What if one's passion is illegal? Might it be better to just be sane then?

'In a deeply experienced life, things are always entering us. I think this is wonderful. The mountain goes inside us. The table goes inside. The river goes inside. The words go inside. All of our immediate experience goes inside us... and simply vanishes. Isn't that beautiful? Isn't that enough?' -David Hinton

It takes dynamite to get me upToo much of everything is just enough One more thing that I just gotta say I need a miracle every day

Without LOVE in the dream it will never come true!

"I don't know if you have found this yet but for me it's like you reach the point where your accumulated knowledge is there and you realise: actually, I don't know the answer to much at all anymore. Because I've accumulated so much that has contradicted what I thought, or what I thought I thought, along the way, that I'm beginning now to ask more questions rather than think I have got answers to anything. I now accept that I know nothing.Looking back you always wanted things explained. You wanted to know things, to have a stance on something or the option of a stance. Now I want the opposite of that. I want to keep the discussion open. I don't want to limit it. I don't want to close it down like that. I'm not into closing my life down at all. I want to embrace knowing nothing." - Cosey Fanni Tutti

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.” -Tom Robbins

Eat anything bigger than your head...

IF- If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! R. Kipling

"All of this was sung beforeand shall be sung again Forgotten songs reclaim their tunes when leaving Terrapin Orion sparkles overhead but just a bit misplaced Visions rescued from the dead speak from your living face" -Hunter

you want the cup but you're chicken to race don't waste your breath to save your face when you have done your best. when even more is asked of you, fate will decide the rest work hard in the daytime, sho' get stoned at night

Take what you need leave the rest, a positive path...words to live by "We taste your honey and fly around as happy as bumblebees. You remember what was agreed upon before the the universe began. You hear the sound of those praise-words, Am I not (Yes!) your lord? Poisonous people, you have little to do with, only what is necessary. You make your own oil as you cook, beyond any recipe or idea of soul growth" -Rumi

"If somebody told me I only had one hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow. If I got tired I’d stop, have a glass of water, and choke him some more." - Miles Davis

"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny". - Frank Zappa

"Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can." ~ Bill Murray --- Play DEAD HEAD DRIVING for your Android phone!!! Join Uncle Gary on a long strange trip to The Dead show! Buy it in the Google Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andersonwhitney.deadh…

'If a picture doesn't say "fuck you", it's no good anyway. It has to defy the viewer first of all, then it can go on to say other things, of course...You want them to stand in front of the picture and say, "What the shitting hell does this mean to me?"' - Gilbert & George

"To all appearances the artist acts as a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing. If we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must deny him the state of consciousness on the aesthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it." - Marcel Duchamp

"Normal is just an illusion What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." - Morticia Addams

"I'm no longer a child and I still want to be, to live with the pirates. Because I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or by dream. I do not see, for there is no I to see. That is what the pirates know. There is only seeing, and in order to go to see, one must be a pirate." - Kathy Acker

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." Leonard Bernstein

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet." - Abraham Lincoln

"Ain't no time to hate".......lyrics by Robert Hunter

"Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word'." - Stan Brakhage

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. Pack another bowl.

https://vimeo.com/178430751?from=outro-embed Basic Human Needs Wouldn't it be neat If the people you meet Had shoes upon their feet And something to eat? And wouldn't it be fine now, If all human kind had shelter? And wouldn't it be grand If we all lent a hand So each one could stand On a free piece of land. And wouldn't it be thrilling If folks stopped their killing And started in tilling the land. Basic human needs, Basic human deeds, Doing what comes naturally. Down in the garden, Where no one is apart, Deep down in the garden, The garden of your heart. And wouldn't it be daring If folks started sharing, Instead of comparing, What each other Was wearing? And wouldn't it be swell If people didn't sell they're mother... Earth. Basic human needs, Basic human deeds, Doing what comes naturally. Down in the garden, Where no one is apart Deep down in the garden The garden of your heart. Not just churches Not just steeples. Jive me peoples Helping peoples

I heard that!

"Well, there are two ways to do what you want to do in music and performance. They both have to do with intention.One, you don't have anything to do with it. You're part of a whole you're a fluent vessel for all these things to come through you. And then there's the other one, when you go into meditation with Quest. As opposed to being just a blade of grass waving in the wind, you're a blade of grass looking in a particular focused direction in order for the wind to blow you that way! Or, blades of grass grow toward the sun. So how are we going to draw forward the best that we can, to become manifest? And that's a completely different way to perform. One of my newest references is thinking of current and voltage. Transmitting voltage, you want to understand what the reception level of the current is! Sometimes that happens with energy, people, sounds, references, cliches, bombastics... And sometimes it happens in acoustics. What does it remind you of if you keep letting your voice resonate? So there are all these ways of deciding what's important for the sound environment over time... Over time you feel like you can see into the 5th dimension... Did I say 5th? I meant the 4th... Maybe I meant 5th! Since I'm so used to the 4th. [laughs] That's one of my favorite things, just to be able to visualize the past (where we are) and take us to someplace that exists already and is full of glee." - Pheeroan akLaff

The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bullshit. - Lars-Erik Nelson

"When the primal scream entered the sound world of the universe it was the first man-made, artificial addendum.Music is the art of the intonated sense; the sound, the groan, the cry and the song where the aural quintessence of the spiritual world of human beings. The aura that personifies sound is transparent through timbre and tone, envelops and tightens the other side of sound, the space of meanings and feelings. Children's games, adult's games, god's games... You can be an idol or a god among the people, but how to makes sense of the Divine Game? Just remember that this knowledge or awareness is the Truth. Consonance or dissonance, free music, pop music, all is searching and hunting for the Great Harmony. As fullness is born into the emptiness of Universal Truth, Absolute Harmony is born into Silence. This three dimensional illusion we call Life will never be perfect because it is made to be imperfect. It is only a school for feelings and the fantasy, designed to improve the hidden chords of thought. Art exists in order to develop the capacity of human beings to imagine. A hidden knowledge of life exists to serve your capacity to develop. Develop your imagination. It's healthy." - Sainkho Namtchylak

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everythingis completely different. -Aldous Huxley

"Free jazz to me is the beginning and it's expansion. It is the chants on top of foot stomps and hand claps. It is the scripture over top of the choir. Free Jazz is what's needed to travel. It is the sound of protest, of peace and of sorrow all at the same time. You cannot go to war without a drum, you cannot time travel, seek outer and inner dimensions without free jazz. Alice Coltrane music is a liberation technology, Sun Ra music is a liberation technology." - Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother)

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -H.L. Mencken

that is seriously obscure, and seriously funny...

“Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.” ― Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf

"This is your life. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." - Frederick Beuchner

"Crimes of passion" - that phrase drives me crazy.A man murdering his girlfriend is not a crime of passion. Premature ejaculation, that's a crime of passion. -Hellura Lyle

Americans learn only from catastrophe, not from experience.Teddy R.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks -Winston Churchill

Clarity is fleeting. Enjoy it while you can. - Frapar Metamucil

"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." - Jorge Luis Borges

"Silence is such an interesting thing that we can talk about it for hours." -Jules Romains

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread,but there are many more dying for a little love. - Mother Teresa

This is a list of axioms that Jefferson offered to a few friends late in his life. There is a lot of wisdom in them... 1. never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day. 2. never trouble another with what you can do yourself 3. never spend your money before you have it 4. never buy a thing you do not want, because it is cheap, it will be dear to you. 5. take care of your cents: Dollars will take care of themselves! 6. pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold. 7. we never repent of having eat[en] too little. 8. nothing is troublesome that one does willingly. 9. how much pain have cost us the evils which have never happen d! 10. take things always by their smooth handle. 11. think as you please, & so let others, & you will have no disputes. 12. when angry, count 10. before you speak; if very angry, 100. Peace, -Dave

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grassgrows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fucking heroic. - George Carlin

The future comes quickly. Before you know it, you turn around and it's tomorrow.--Pia Zadora

"If it has tires or testicles, you're gonna have trouble with it". - Ms. Anonymous