The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAI think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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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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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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