A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAPartly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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