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 GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
-
-
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
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 -
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.
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 The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIA -
Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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 -
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIA -
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIA -
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.
JERRY GARCIA -
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIA -
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 GARCIA -
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIA -
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 -
Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
JERRY GARCIA -
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIA -
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIA -
… 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.’
JERRY GARCIA -
What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIA -
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIA