Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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