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.
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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 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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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