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.
JERRY GARCIAMusic 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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 think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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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