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 GARCIAIn this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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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.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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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.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in 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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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