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.
JERRY GARCIAI think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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 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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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There’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.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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