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 GARCIA
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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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.
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I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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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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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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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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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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