Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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