black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Jerry Garcia

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIA

Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Decision Each Energy Go Happen Land Make Person Whether
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIA

All Anything Assume Dynamic Learn Life Play Reason
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
JERRY GARCIA

Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIA

Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIA

Go Immediately Obvious Something Work
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Apparently Do Ill Intrigued Live Mentality More Percent Poverty Read Seven Seventy Somewhere Themselves
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIA

Get Great Human might Race Reach Sense
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!
JERRY GARCIA

Always Best Expect Farther Faster Future Higher Hope Jump Live Reach Ryun Win Worst
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Bit Context First Fragment Human Moral Piece Rather Religion Superstructural
In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA

Do Gformulate Nature Non Something
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIA

Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIA

Campbell Music Need One Probably Question Ritual Those
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
JERRY GARCIA

Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
JERRY GARCIA

Bliss Celebration Encapsulate Good Live Lot Magic Music Myth Need Power Religion

You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jerry Garcia Quotes