The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIAIf you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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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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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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