I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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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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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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