You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIATo 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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