We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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, 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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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 like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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