I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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 GARCIAEach person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAIn this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
JERRY GARCIAIf you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIATruth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
JERRY GARCIAI read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
JERRY GARCIAPeople may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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