If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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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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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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