In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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 mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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