It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
JERRY GARCIAListening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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