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.
JERRY GARCIAI’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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In 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.
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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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