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.
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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