The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIAPeople may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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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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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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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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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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