Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
JERRY GARCIAIf you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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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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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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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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