The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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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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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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