Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. Jerry Garcia More Quotes by Jerry Garcia More Quotes From Jerry Garcia 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. Jerry Garcia brosseemsstuff What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. Jerry Garcia complexesamerica In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that. Jerry Garcia musicalplayerthinking The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth. Jerry Garcia differentrealitypeople The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. Jerry Garcia alternativesmediaimportant How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to. Jerry Garcia exposedtrainingworld 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. Jerry Garcia lawrunningreality One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat. Jerry Garcia videodruggames Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. Jerry Garcia this-lifedrugmatter I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully. Jerry Garcia tryingpeopleyears 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. Jerry Garcia realpeoplethinking 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 cousinmoviegrateful Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk. Jerry Garcia sidewalkpuddles Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart Jerry Garcia townsheart 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. Jerry Garcia listeningtryingmoving I think part of what has to happen, somewhere, pretty soon, is that a human template has to come up. We have to start with, OK let's throw out all this other stuff, everything we have thought about it before, throw out all our models, and start with a human. What is a human? Jerry Garcia come-upstuffthinking 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. Jerry Garcia tapehomepeople Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America. Jerry Garcia kindpersonalityamerica There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works. Jerry Garcia dogmauniverse Technology didn't just go, clunk. It was this early disease, starting with a plow, I guess, or something like that, the first tool that made it so you could do more things. The first domesticated animal, or the first wheel. Jerry Garcia technologytoolsanimal
