Favorite Jerry Quotes

[bigrr]

I can't remember what magazine interview this was in, Rolling Stone in
the mid-80's before Touch(?). At his self-deprecating best.
(Paraphrased) "We're best at taking a nice little tune and running it
right into the ground.", answering a question about their long,
improvisational jams.

[Edwin Hurwitz]

In article <140120112237182534%bi...@huh.com>, bigrr <bi...@huh.com>
wrote:

"We're ugly but we're honest. Actually, we're not all that honest."

[sacha]

"Somebody's got to save the rainforest. It's just incredibly pitiful
it has to be us..."

[yoker]

> > "My way is music. Music is me being me and trying to get higher. I've been into music so long that I'm dripping with it; it's all I ever expect to do. I can't do anything else. Music is a yoga, something you really do when you're doing it. Thinking about what it means comes after the fact and isn't very interesting. Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else, like those moments when you're playing and the whole room becomes one being - precious moments, man. But you can't look for them, and they can't be repeated. Being alive means to continue to change, never to be where I was before. Music is the timeless experience of constant change." < <

Jerry Garcia from an interview with Rolling Stone magazine,
August 23, 1969

Thanks to "cedar."
Originally posted on rec.music.gdead on April 24 2002.

[yoker]

[MalcolmO]

"Making a record is like building a ship in a bottle. Playing a concert
is like being in a rowboat in the ocean."
--
Malcolm
"They should know they're the Grateful Dead now." -- Phil

[Neil X]

I love this thread, this is great. Whose got more??

Here's mine:

"Don't pay any attention to Weir, he's been crazy for years."
--J. Garcia, 7/2/88, Oxford, ME

[gringo]

I forget the specifics, but I believe it was from a later day
interview. Question: "What is so special about a Grateful Dead show?"
Answer: "I don't know. I have never been to one."

Kurt

[3jane.]

"When we're done playing it, it's yours."

[volkfolk]

On Jan 17, 11:50 am, Neil X <nei...@yahoo.com> wrote:

This is a paraphrase, but he once said something to the effect of

"The Grateful Dead is like an old whore or bad architecture, if you
hang around long enough eventually you become acceptable"

Scot

[jrb2]

At Altimont " I don't know man It's like a day inhell
Here's Johnny

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[Edwin Hurwitz]

In article
<096606f4-3544-4d18...@y19g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
Neil X <nei...@yahoo.com> wrote:

I remember that! I was right up front for that banter, which included,
if I recall, something about Phil asking why we never asked for Mickey
to sing.

[Neil X]

On Jan 17, 9:00 pm, Edwin Hurwitz <ed...@indra.com> wrote:
> In article

> <096606f4-3544-4d18-8ce0-fd6a88281...@y19g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,

That is correct. I was there too, of course. Phil said "Why don't
you ask for Mickey to sing, or Brent? Say: We Want Brent!" Then
Bobby interjected, "Don't ask Phil for anything, he's been deaf for
years." Jerry's quote above was a response to that line.

Peace,
Neil X.

[frndthdevl]

"Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
Jerry Garcia

[DGDevin]

The one where he was asked why rock and roll has to be so loud, and in reply
he said something like, "Ever see a dog with its head out the window of a
car going 60 mph? Same thing."

[MalcolmO]

> This is a paraphrase, but he once said something to the effect of
>
> "The Grateful Dead is like an old whore or bad architecture, if you
> hang around long enough eventually you become acceptable"

I think that was something Mick said about the Stones.

[Neil X]

> Jeff wrote:
>
> "Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."
> Jerry Garcia

Yeah, but he didn't say that like it was a bad thing.

Peace,
Neil X.

[volkfolk]

Mick may have said it, but Jerry definitely said it.

Scot

[Chuck Stearns]

"The Grateful Dead should be sponsored by the government, like a public
service. And they should set us up to play in places that need to get high.

- J Garcia

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