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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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