What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIAToo much of a good thing is just about right
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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