You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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