To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAYou don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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There’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.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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To 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.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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