If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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