I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIAFor 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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 important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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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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