The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
JERRY GARCIAThe implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIAI 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 GARCIAI 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 GARCIAA simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAAmerica is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIAMusic goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
JERRY GARCIAThe result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
JERRY GARCIAI’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
JERRY GARCIAIf you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
JERRY GARCIAWhat is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIAWe have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
JERRY GARCIA