It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIA
The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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Hunter 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.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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