The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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