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.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! 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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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