America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIASee, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
-
-
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIA -
A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIA -
We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
JERRY GARCIA -
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 -
I think that the revolution in music is over, and what’s left is a mop-up action. It’s a matter of the news getting out to everybody else.
JERRY GARCIA -
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIA -
Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
JERRY GARCIA -
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA -
The 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 GARCIA -
I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
JERRY GARCIA -
What 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 GARCIA -
Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
JERRY GARCIA -
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA -
I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
JERRY GARCIA -
I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
JERRY GARCIA






