With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.
Jerry GarciaIn 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 GarciaTo me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.
Jerry GarciaI think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
Jerry Garcia