What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. Jerry Garcia More Quotes by Jerry Garcia More Quotes From Jerry Garcia Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. Jerry Garcia audience suits strong I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities. Jerry Garcia possibility 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. Jerry Garcia technology want firsts The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. Jerry Garcia pursuit-of-happiness bills rights It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now. Jerry Garcia rocks music too-late If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax. Jerry Garcia syntax space thinking I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow. Jerry Garcia important earth thinking 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. Jerry Garcia moral-behavior hell capacity Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural. Jerry Garcia music-is art thinking Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. Jerry Garcia scary doe stuff I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician." Jerry Garcia musician certain play 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 problem want numbers 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 drug money thinking I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain. Jerry Garcia mountain blow wind With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment. Jerry Garcia recognition environment responsibility Things come up from the outside, the outside world says, okay, you have do this, you have to go here and here and here, and these are your options. You can be here or you can be here. You can do this, or you can do this. You can go here, or you can go there. So each one of those things becomes a place of decision, and the way we make decisions is that we all get together and if somebody doesn't feel right about it or it doesn't seem to sit right, usually we'll go with the no vote. If somebody's not comfortable with it, we'll figure it's not going to be worth doing. Jerry Garcia decision together way Sometimes you have to be clever. Jerry Garcia clever sometimes 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 giving mean needs As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them. Jerry Garcia listening trying fall 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. Jerry Garcia oral-tradition information culture
