See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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