More from Jerry Garcia
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Nothing left to do but smile.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia The 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 GarciaJerry Garcia You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
Jerry GarciaJerry 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 GarciaJerry 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 GarciaJerry 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 GarciaJerry Garcia An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
Jerry GarciaJerry 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 GarciaJerry Garcia We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
Jerry GarciaJerry Garcia
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The path to youth takes a lifetime.
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Harry StylesHarry Styles Each one of us only has so many breaths that we breathe in our lifetime. Make sure each and every breath is well spent!
David GogginsDavid Goggins It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.
Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazaki Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald ReaganRonald Reagan We have the ability, as members of the human race, we have the means, we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth in our lifetime. We only need the will.
John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.
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