To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIANobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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.
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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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