"The Music Never Stopped"
Happy Birthday Jerry
In celebration of Jerry Garcia's Birthday, August 1, we present some Jerry quotes, as compiled from the site Brainy Quote.com:
And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
And the live show is still our main thing.
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.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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.
The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
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.
Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
Jerry Garcia
And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
And the live show is still our main thing.
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.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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.
The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
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.
Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.
Jerry Garcia
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