It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
JERRY GARCIAThe Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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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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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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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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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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