You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIAI have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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I 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.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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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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The 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.
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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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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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