We’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 GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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Music 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.
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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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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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