What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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It 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.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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