As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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 would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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