Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
JERRY GARCIAThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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… 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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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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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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