You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIAWe were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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