I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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As 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.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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.
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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.
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