You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
JERRY GARCIAYou have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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 GARCIAThe thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
JERRY GARCIAThe 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 GARCIAWhat we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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 GARCIAThe thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
JERRY GARCIAAll I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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 GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIAThere’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
JERRY GARCIAI think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIANothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIAI 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 GARCIAIf the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
JERRY GARCIAWhat’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
JERRY GARCIA