There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAIf the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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 GARCIAEverybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIAYou ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIAThe context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
JERRY GARCIAWe would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
JERRY GARCIAWe’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
JERRY GARCIAI Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
JERRY GARCIAConstantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
JERRY GARCIAPlaying in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
JERRY GARCIATo get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAAn organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIA