I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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 need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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