I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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