I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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The 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.
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