Too much of a good thing is just about right
JERRY GARCIAA simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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.
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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.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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.
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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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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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