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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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