The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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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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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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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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We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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