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.
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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