It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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