If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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