I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIAI think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIASee, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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 didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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 GARCIAWe play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
JERRY GARCIAWhistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
JERRY GARCIAIf you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
JERRY GARCIAThe pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
JERRY GARCIAYou don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
JERRY GARCIAI mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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 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 GARCIAThere is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
JERRY GARCIAYou do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
JERRY GARCIAI think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIA