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 GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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