And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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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’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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