Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIAYou 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.
JERRY GARCIAYou listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIARight now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIAWe would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
JERRY GARCIAThe context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
JERRY GARCIA