Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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