I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAThe dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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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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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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