I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIAThe result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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