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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.

Jerry Garcia

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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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 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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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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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing

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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