#hi

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#i #like #shopping #something #will

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

— Jerry Garcia

#i #i think #mostly #nature #still

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. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#better #better now #clock #committed #five

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. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#because #city #city government #come #every

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. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#bringing #demographics #gotten #grandparents #i

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

#cause #comfortable #get #give #going

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. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#forte #hang #his #hunter #like

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

— Jerry Garcia

#fact #feel #i #in fact #material

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

#alternatives #amount #available #because #becoming

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. ↗

— Jerry Garcia

#enough #exhaust #get #good #high