If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAThere 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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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.
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