We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
JERRY GARCIAWhat 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.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
-
-
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 -
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 -
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
JERRY GARCIA -
Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
JERRY GARCIA -
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
JERRY GARCIA -
The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
JERRY 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 GARCIA -
In 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 GARCIA -
I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
JERRY GARCIA -
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIA -
It’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.
JERRY GARCIA -
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
JERRY GARCIA -
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
JERRY GARCIA -
Run 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 GARCIA -
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
JERRY GARCIA