Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
Jerry GarciaDeath comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry GarciaTechnology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel.
Jerry GarciaAs a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.
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