How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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 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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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