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.
JERRY GARCIATo me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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 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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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