To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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