You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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