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 GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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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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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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