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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Jerry Garcia

The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Beem Long Strange Trip
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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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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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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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