If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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… 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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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 Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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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