Jerry Garcia Quotes

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.

I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.

There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!

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.

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.

And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.

The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.

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.