Nothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIAThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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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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