I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAYou don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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 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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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