To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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