The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIAYou listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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’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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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?’
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