Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIAMagic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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 GARCIAI know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIARight now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIAI think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
JERRY GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAI think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAListen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAToo much of a good thing is just about right
JERRY GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAI have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
JERRY GARCIANobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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 GARCIANothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIA