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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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