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 GARCIAI 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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