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.
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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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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 implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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 think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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