We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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 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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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 is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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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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