I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIAI don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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 GARCIAThe satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
JERRY GARCIAAn organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
JERRY GARCIAI 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 GARCIAWhistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
JERRY GARCIAI’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
JERRY GARCIADone time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIASomebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIAWhat we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
JERRY GARCIAI equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
JERRY GARCIAIn my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
JERRY GARCIARun faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIAWe’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIACats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.
JERRY GARCIA