If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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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’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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