The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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 we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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