You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
JERRY GARCIAIt turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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 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 need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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 pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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