We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIATo me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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