Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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 something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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