We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIANobody 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?’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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Listening. 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.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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