American - Musician | August 1, 1942 - August 9, 1995
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia
LiveDoingPovertyMoreSomewhere
I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
ShoppingWillSomethingLikeAround
Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.
StrongAudienceSuitOurStrong Suit
My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me.
I AmMeNowMatureAheadMore
And the live show is still our main thing.
LiveShowStillOurMainThing
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
NiceSometimesWriteUpHangHunter
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
AmericanAmericaPlaceAlwaysBeen
I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
MusicGovernmentCityIdeasYouWay
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.
LiveStartMediaImportantKindUs
The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
ProcessGuitarAestheticYouTry
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
CharacterQualityEffortSocietyYou
I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.
GuitarYouPlaySometimesWantKind
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