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 GARCIAEach 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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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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The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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