Jerry Garcia Quotes

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

When I was a kid, it was so important to listen only to bands nobody had ever heard of. I missed out on so much interesting music because of my need to listen to a psychobilly band that only two people knew about... Because I thought I was cool.

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

I'm not a jazz musician, because, I mean, firstly, I can't play anything. I'm not bad on the tamborine. I have a certain way with the triangle. But I'm not a jazz musician ... my band, they always joke, they always say that I'm a disposable, pop, jazz superstar.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

I can be a badass DJ when I want, but I am also an insufferable music snob.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

Those are terrible people who don't like Glenn Gould... I will have nothing to do with such people, they are dangerous people.

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

But you listen to Coltrane and that's something human, something that's about elevation. It's like making love to a woman. It's about something of value, it's not just loud. It doesn't have that violent connotation to it. I wanted to be a jazz musician so bad, but I really couldn't. There was no way I could figure out to learn how to play.

I always thought if a guy could play the guitar, he must be something really special.

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.