Jerry Garcia quotes - page 2

And the live show is still our main thing. (Jerry Garcia)
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. View quote
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And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over. View quote
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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. View quote
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. View quote
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For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part. View quote
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Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace. View quote
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Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. View quote
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I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. View quote
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I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional. View quote
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. (Jerry Garcia)
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience. View quote
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And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem. View quote
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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. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. View quote
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But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you. View quote
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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well. View quote
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project. View quote
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We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. View quote
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