The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
JERRY GARCIAListening. 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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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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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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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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