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.
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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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