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.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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 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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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