If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIASee, 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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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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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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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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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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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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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 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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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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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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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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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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