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.
JERRY GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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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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