In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I 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.
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