There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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