I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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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 Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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