Jerry Garcia Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. 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. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.

  Jerry Garcia

  Spiritual, Religious, Real

  Source: deadsources.blogspot.com

• If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

  Jerry Garcia

  Powerful, Thinking, Dialect

  Source: medium.com

• 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. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.

  Jerry Garcia

  Play, Together, Matter

  Source: medium.com

• In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation.

  Jerry Garcia

  Taken, Years, Sound

  Source: medium.com

• 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.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Space, Musical

  Source: medium.com

• If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

  Jerry Garcia

  Thinking, Space, Syntax

  Source: medium.com

• That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

  Jerry Garcia

  Language, Persons, Transcending

  Source: medium.com

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