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 GARCIAYou 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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