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.
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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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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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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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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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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