Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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So 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.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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