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 GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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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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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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There 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.
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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