I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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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.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Hunter 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.
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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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