The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
JERRY GARCIAThe bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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