What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAYou don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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