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.
JERRY GARCIASo every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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