It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIAYou 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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 getting out to everybody else.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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