And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIAPlaying 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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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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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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