The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIASee, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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 have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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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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