You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIAHunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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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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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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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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 read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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