How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAWhat is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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