Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAHunter 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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 have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace 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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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