Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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 Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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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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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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