The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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.
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