You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAIn folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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?
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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