I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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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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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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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 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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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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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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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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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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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