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.
JERRY GARCIANow 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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 mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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