You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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 read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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 equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIA






