What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIAYou 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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’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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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