I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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.
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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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 world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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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.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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