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 GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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