I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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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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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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