If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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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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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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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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