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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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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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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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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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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