Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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 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.
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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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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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