To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
JERRY GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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