How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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… 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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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