You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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 mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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