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 GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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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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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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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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Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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