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.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
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We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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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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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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