Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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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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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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