If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIASometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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 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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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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… 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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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