Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural. Jerry Garcia More Quotes by Jerry Garcia More Quotes From Jerry Garcia The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us. Jerry Garcia agendasour-worldbattle This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics. Jerry Garcia technologicalstuffreality The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer. Jerry Garcia guaranteesprayerwant In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation. Jerry Garcia takensoundyears We are not completely autonomous. Jerry Garcia autonomous Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is going to be a common ground. Jerry Garcia musiciantogetherculture Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four. Jerry Garcia eighthard-timesexample The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually. Jerry Garcia creationmomentswould-be You reach into cyberspace and you grab some cyber stuff, build it up, and the computer will give you a 360 of it. Jerry Garcia cyberspacestuffgiving In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too. Jerry Garcia musicalrealityideas That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language. Jerry Garcia transcendinglanguagepersons I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better. Jerry Garcia micekeyboardspersons The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic. Jerry Garcia colororderreality Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere. Jerry Garcia soundmightorder Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock. Jerry Garcia shocklightkind You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with. Jerry Garcia contactdown-andneeds every mind is at least as heavy as mine Jerry Garcia heavyminesmind I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. Jerry Garcia moviesuccessfulbook I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey. Jerry Garcia redbottlesbeer I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project. Jerry Garcia gratefulpatienceworld
