You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIA
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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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