I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIASo 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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