Jerry Garcia Quotes

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.

I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

My earliest memories are at the Blue Note here in New York or backstage at different theatres or different clubs, dressing rooms.

I've known Chicago for 50 years; we used to play shows at the Avalon Ballroom.

We played some of our first big shows at Wayne Firehouse and Manville Elks Lodge. New Jersey's always been our home away from home.

I've graced almost every stage in N.Y., from Webster Hall to Gramercy Theater to Best Buy.

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

Live shows are really big for me. I want to do as many of those as I can.

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

It's always hard to find groups who can tour with The Prodigy.

I taught myself to play guitar and sing. I ended up writing a lot of music and had a band and was playing in bars and pubs all around Sydney, going on tour. I played with some pretty big bands in Australia.

As a rock fan, you read of the big labels and the multinationals and the big tours with road crews and semi-trailers full of gear, and playing stadiums. In the '90s, that's what we did.

Looking back, we had the hard time, but the privilege, of actually coming up playing biker bars and little bitty college bars.

My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.

Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?

As far as dream venues, I've played all the venues I'd love to play.

Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.

We've played every dirty rock-and-roll club in America, and we've been opening acts for everyone.

Cheap Trick has played with every band on the planet.

We're known as a touring band, not a singles band.

Even though L.A. can be kind of tacky, when a city's big draws are The Roxy and the Viper Room, you know its pretty amazing.

Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.