To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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