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.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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