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.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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