Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIAIn 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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