Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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 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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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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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