black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

Jerry Garcia

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIA

Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet
It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIA

Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIA

Adventure Enlarge Everybody Live Need Something
What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
JERRY GARCIA

Allow Alone Happen Intention Make No Something Sort Way
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
JERRY GARCIA

Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Except Fun Important Long Play Regard Regardless Thing
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
JERRY GARCIA

Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Licorice Like People Really
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIA

Cities Government Mean
Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
JERRY GARCIA

Alive Experience How Little Much Pain Part Partly Tell Way
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
JERRY GARCIA

Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
JERRY GARCIA

Chaos Clear Counterculture Kind Look might Pretty Reality Some Undiferentiate Weirdness
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 GARCIA

Amplifire Better Electric Get Hardware Instrument Music Need Try
To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
JERRY GARCIA

Alive Cat Church Constant Country Everyone Hear History Kind Music Open Radio Record Street

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jerry Garcia Quotes