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.
JERRY GARCIAAn organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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It 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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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