You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIASometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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