You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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