To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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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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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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