We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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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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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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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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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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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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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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