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 GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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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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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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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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