I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAToo much of a good thing is just about right
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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.
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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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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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