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.
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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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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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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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 listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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