How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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