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Jerry Garcia

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

— Jerry Garcia evil

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

— Jerry Garcia nature

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

— Jerry Garcia art

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

— Jerry Garcia life

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

— Jerry Garcia society

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.

— Jerry Garcia body

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.

— Jerry Garcia people

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

— Jerry Garcia you

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

— Jerry Garcia art

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

— Jerry Garcia music

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.

— Jerry Garcia men

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.

— Jerry Garcia music

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

— Jerry Garcia death

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

— Jerry Garcia will

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

— Jerry Garcia drugs

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.

— Jerry Garcia success

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

— Jerry Garcia strong

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

— Jerry Garcia america

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

— Jerry Garcia life

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

— Jerry Garcia want

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

— Jerry Garcia body

And the live show is still our main thing.

— Jerry Garcia live

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

— Jerry Garcia success

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.

— Jerry Garcia time

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.

— Jerry Garcia life

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