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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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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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as 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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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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 know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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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 think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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