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.
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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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