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 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
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If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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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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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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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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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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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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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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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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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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