We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIAYou 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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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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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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