You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIAEvery silver lining has a touch of grey.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace 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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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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