You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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