The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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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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You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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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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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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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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