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 GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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.
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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’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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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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