How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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