All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAThere’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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