Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Sometimes 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.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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