The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
JERRY GARCIAThere 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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 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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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