A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAA simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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 GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIAWe didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
JERRY GARCIAListening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
JERRY GARCIAEverything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIAIn this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
JERRY GARCIAMusic is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
JERRY GARCIAWe need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAPeople may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIA