The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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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.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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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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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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