You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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