A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIASometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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.
JERRY GARCIAAnd 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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
JERRY GARCIA… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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.
JERRY GARCIAIt’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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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
JERRY GARCIAWe have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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