A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAAnd as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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