To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIATo get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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