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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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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If 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.
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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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Blah, 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.
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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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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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We 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.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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