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 GARCIAIf you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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