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Jerry Garcia Quotes

American - Musician | August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995

I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

Morning Today Great Me Writing Song

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

Evil Two Still Evils Choosing

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.

Parents People Intention Say Never

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Nature Think America Still I Think

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

Life Death You Matter Comparison

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

Spiritual Me Political Sixties Real

I don't think I've ever actually written from inspiration, actually had a song just go, 'Bing!' I only recall that happening to me twice - once was with 'Terrapin' and the other was 'Wharf Rat.' I mean, that's twice in a lifetime of writing!

Me Writing Song Think Go Mean

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

Patience Grateful Me World Project

I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.

Art Me Ideas Back I Can Run

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.

Money Think Problem Bad Crime Turn

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

You Know Hidden Scary Because Stuff

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.

Grateful You Find Know Never Mean

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