It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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