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.
JERRY GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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