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.
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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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