We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIAIf you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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 don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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