I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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.
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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 play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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