black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.

Jerry Garcia

I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
JERRY GARCIA

Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
JERRY GARCIA

Bill Happiness Kind Overview Pursuit Thing Tight
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIA

Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
See, 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 GARCIA

Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
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

Forte Hunter Melody Nice Really Serviceable Something Sometimes
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

Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
JERRY GARCIA

Get Light Thunder Will
What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIA

Beem Long Strange Trip
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Big Coopted Country Gun Now Right Test Under Way
What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Else Peaceful Planet Think
And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
JERRY GARCIA

Clean Next Person Talk
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
JERRY GARCIA

Consciousness Evil Get Good Life Manifestation Reject Try Whole
I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
JERRY GARCIA

Characterized Excuse Good Know Life Pain Particularly Think Unhappy
Blah, 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 GARCIA

Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
JERRY GARCIA

Evil Lesser Pick Still Two
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
JERRY GARCIA

Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service

If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Jerry Garcia Quotes