If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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