Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
JERRY GARCIATo me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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 were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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!
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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 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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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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.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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We 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.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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