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" 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! "

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" 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. "

Jerry Garcia

Society

Character

Effort

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do. "

Jerry Garcia

Rock

Years

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

" Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace. "

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

Jerry Garcia

Political

Sixties

" 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. "

" I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional. "

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

Jerry Garcia

World

Patience

" 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

Kind

Live

" 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. "

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

" What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. "

" Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" And the live show is still our main thing. "

" I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. "

" I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. "

" The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things. "