Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
-
-
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIA -
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIA -
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIA -
I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIA -
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIA -
Too much of a good thing is just about right
JERRY GARCIA -
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
JERRY GARCIA -
The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
JERRY GARCIA