The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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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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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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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