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.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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