Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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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 great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Listening. 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.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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