Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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.’
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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