To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAIf you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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