If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIANobody 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 GARCIAIf 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.
JERRY GARCIAYou listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAPartly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
JERRY GARCIABlah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
JERRY GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIAFor me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
JERRY GARCIAWe have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIADone time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIA