You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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