Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIAMagic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIAI’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIAI 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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
JERRY GARCIAWe were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
JERRY GARCIADone time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
JERRY GARCIAThe bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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