Jerry Garcia Quotes

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

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.

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

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

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

American society has gone completely into denial.

Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

The sun will shine in my back door one day.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

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

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.

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

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

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.

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

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.

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

The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.

And the live show is still our main thing.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.

Sometimes you have to be clever.

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

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.

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.

You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with.

Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You can take the notes home, but that experience is one you have to be there.

Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation would be transmuted individually.

We are not completely autonomous.

This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.

I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.