I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIASo every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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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.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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