The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIAWhat a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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