I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIAIt turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
JERRY GARCIAGetting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
JERRY GARCIAAs 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.
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 Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
JERRY GARCIAMusic 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.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
JERRY GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIAFor me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAWe 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.
JERRY GARCIATruth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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