The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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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 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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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