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 GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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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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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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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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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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