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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.

Jerry Garcia

The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with 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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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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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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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