Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIATo be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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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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The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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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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So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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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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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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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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I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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