If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life. Jerry Garcia More Quotes by Jerry Garcia More Quotes From Jerry Garcia Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way. Jerry Garcia gun america way What a long strange trip it's been. Jerry Garcia strange expression long 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. Jerry Garcia musical space thinking It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs. Jerry Garcia two reality people American society has gone completely into denial. Jerry Garcia denial american-society gone For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. Jerry Garcia political real spiritual If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. Jerry Garcia dialect powerful thinking ... 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.' It 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 Garcia grateful music names 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? 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. Jerry Garcia confusing confusion real I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves. Jerry Garcia reading-books poverty ill There's a lot there to enlarge you. That's part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more. Jerry Garcia extended-family values bigger Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! Jerry Garcia faster winning running Every silver lining has a touch of grey. Jerry Garcia grey silver The thing of being able to share somebody's reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know. Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody's reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically. The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go? If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which... you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon. Jerry Garcia communication mean reality I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there. Jerry Garcia law order thinking 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. Jerry Garcia creativity business work I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there. Jerry Garcia consciousness evolution needs You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music. The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it's real. I don't think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can't fool everybody. Jerry Garcia real long thinking I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. Jerry Garcia dies matter mean 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. Jerry Garcia drug littles men
