Nothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIAToo much of a good thing is just about right
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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