If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAIf something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
JERRY GARCIAFor me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
JERRY GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAThe thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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 GARCIA… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
JERRY GARCIAEvery silver lining has a touch of grey.
JERRY GARCIAI like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIASome things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIAThe world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
JERRY GARCIAAnd there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
JERRY GARCIABlah, 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 GARCIAMusic is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
JERRY GARCIA