Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
JERRY GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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