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.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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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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