Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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 great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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 equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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