The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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