If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIANow it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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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 would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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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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