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Jerry Garcia

If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIA

Go Immediately Obvious Something Work
You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIA

Best One Only Want What
Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Definite Every May Some Thing Time Various Work
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
JERRY GARCIA

Bliss Celebration Encapsulate Good Live Lot Magic Music Myth Need Power Religion
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 GARCIA

Amplifire Better Electric Get Hardware Instrument Music Need Try
The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Able Business Else Label Make Matter Music Right Somebody Sound Thing
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Basic Freedom Happiness Key Me Pursuit Thing Ultimate
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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Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Going Happen Just Line See Were
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Licorice Like People Really
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.
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Forte Hunter Melody Nice Really Serviceable Something Sometimes
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.
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Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Able Bein Enlarge Great Point See Thing Through View
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.
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Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff

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