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.
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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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