The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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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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If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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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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It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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As long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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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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… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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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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You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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