The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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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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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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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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.
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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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