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 like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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