I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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