… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
JERRY GARCIA… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
JERRY GARCIAHunter 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 GARCIAIt’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
JERRY GARCIAHow many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIAAmerican society has gone completely into denial.
JERRY GARCIAIf you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
JERRY GARCIATo get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
JERRY GARCIAIt doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
JERRY GARCIAI think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIAWe were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIALive life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
JERRY GARCIAAnd for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIATo me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIAYou need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
JERRY GARCIAWhistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
JERRY GARCIAWe’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