It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
JERRY GARCIAThere’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.
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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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