Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be.… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
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… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I like all the kinds of music I've been into. I'm certainly not a purist in that I will only play country… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
“A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back” — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share
