We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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 bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I 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.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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