I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
JERRY GARCIAIt’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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
-
-
Too much of a good thing is just about right
JERRY GARCIA -
I 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 -
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
JERRY GARCIA -
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIA -
If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
JERRY GARCIA -
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIA -
Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
JERRY GARCIA -
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIA -
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIA -
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIA -
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIA -
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
JERRY GARCIA -
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
JERRY GARCIA -
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIA -
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA -
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIA -
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY 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 GARCIA -
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
JERRY GARCIA -
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIA -
To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY 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 GARCIA -
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIA -
Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
JERRY GARCIA -
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIA -
We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
JERRY GARCIA