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.
JERRY GARCIAHunter 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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