I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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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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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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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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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