We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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