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 GARCIAMusic 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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