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. Jerry Garcia More Quotes by Jerry Garcia More Quotes From Jerry Garcia Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right. Jerry Garcia rock-and-roll cat hands And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. Jerry Garcia materials use lifetime ... 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. 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. 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. Jerry Garcia music fun thinking The Japanese are hard to figure out. Jerry Garcia hard figures The sun will shine in my back door one day. Jerry Garcia one-day shining doors Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace. Jerry Garcia quality energy thinking There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads. Jerry Garcia teeth running numbers We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying! Jerry Garcia buying trying years I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. Jerry Garcia shopping And the live show is still our main thing. Jerry Garcia stills shows It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty. Jerry Garcia levels sides appreciation There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun. Jerry Garcia real joy fun The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely. Jerry Garcia block reality world I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better. Jerry Garcia get-better effort trying The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept. Jerry Garcia concepts pursuit pursuit-of-happiness I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn't fit humans. Humans can't possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed. It is a religion that works against you because the template don't fit. It's not human, you know. Jerry Garcia religious people thinking There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it. Jerry Garcia keys reality art 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. 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. Jerry Garcia kind song country Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example. Jerry Garcia matter together play Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. Jerry Garcia audience suits strong
