What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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The 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.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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