Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIAIt’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
-
-
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
JERRY GARCIA -
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA -
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIA -
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
JERRY GARCIA -
We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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 -
I 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 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 -
The 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 GARCIA -
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
JERRY GARCIA -
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA -
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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 -
It’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 GARCIA