I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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If 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.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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