In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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