Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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