If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAMusic 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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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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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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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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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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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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