American society has gone completely into denial.
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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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 satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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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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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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