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.
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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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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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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