America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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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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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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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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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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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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 it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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