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“There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.”

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I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?

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You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

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That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.

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There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to…

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We played it as long as we could play it on that CD and I think it might be 50 minutes, maybe. What you…

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The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes…

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If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

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The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people…

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What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the…

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Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

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I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

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Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

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I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

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I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm…

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Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully.

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Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is…

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And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together…

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I know Jerry [Falwell] fairly well, and he's probably not bright enough to recognize all of the implications of what he said.

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He's the greatest clutch player I've ever seen. The hell with Jerry West!

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You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with…

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When we developed the 'Seinfeld' show, we took a bet on Jerry Seinfeld, who was not a household name. But Jerry had a voice.…

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So much business is based on the belief that we should do whatever we can within legal limits to make as much money as…

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