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 GARCIAI have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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What 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.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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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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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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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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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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