The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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