Jerry Garcia Quotes

It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well ... We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market ... keeps getting better and better. ~ Ann Coulter

The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. ~ Jerry Garcia

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right. ~ Jerry Garcia

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart ~ Jerry Garcia

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

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, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little ... ~ Jerry Garcia

To 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 Garcia

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large. ~ Jerry Garcia

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die. ~ Jerry Garcia

We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen. ~ Jerry Garcia

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. ~ 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

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

What a long strange trip it's been. ~ Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia used to take his paints on the road. I don't do that. Either I'm a singer or a painter. I'm not good at multi-tasking. ~ Grace Slick

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well. ~ Jerry Garcia

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song. ~ Jerry Garcia

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us. ~ Jerry Garcia

We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way. ~ Phil Lesh

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. ~ Jerry Garcia

every mind is at least as heavy as mine ~ Jerry Garcia

What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We'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. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps. ~ Jerry Garcia

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. ~ Jerry Garcia

The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations. ~ Jerry Garcia

Eventually they [Sarunas Marciulionis and Don Nelson] got a call from a representative of the Grateful Dead, whose members had been inspired by Lithuania's struggle for independence. Nelson and Marciulionis showed up at the address they were given in San Francisco, which was a small, nondescript garage. 'I thought we were the victim of a practical joke until we opened the door and there was a state-of-the-art recording studio' says Nelson.

'I still remember the Dead were trying out Beatles covers, doing stuff like "Here Comes the Sun" and "Hey Jude"... but they were just kind of working through things and sounding kind of nasally and, well, maybe there was a little pot going on. So Sarunas pulls me aside and says 'Donnie, no way these guys are famous. They're terrible.' '. ~ Jack McCallum

Duane Allman didn't see himself as the bandleader .. he led by example, and you gained a lot of respect from Duane if you earned it, if you proved you could keep up with him. If you couldn't, you'd either end up in awe of him or you might not even like him. He was very different from Jerry Garcia (guitar/leader of the Grateful Dead) who was very easy going. Duane didn't have time to be easy going ... there was much more urgency to his personality ~ Richard Betts

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever. ~ Jerry Garcia

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience. ~ Jerry Garcia

We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing. ~ Jerry Garcia

I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince. ~ Duane Allman

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it. ~ Jerry Garcia

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place. ~ Jerry Garcia

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. ~ Jerry Garcia

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. ~ Jerry Garcia

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one. ~ Jerry Garcia

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace. ~ Jerry Garcia

There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us. ~ Bruce Hornsby

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you. ~ Jerry Garcia

You know what I hate about rock? I hate tie-dyed tee shirts. I wouldn't wear a tie-dyed tee shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia. ~ Kurt Cobain

We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable. ~ Jerry Garcia

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you. ~ Jerry Garcia

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul. ~ Jerry Garcia

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know. ~ Jerry Garcia

Magic is what we do.
Music is how we do it. ~ Jerry Garcia

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like. ~ Jerry Garcia

I'm not Beethoven! ~ Jerry Garcia

The sun will shine in my back door one day.. ~ Jerry Garcia

Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much. ~ Trevor Dunn

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will. ~ Jerry Garcia

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody. ~ Jerry Garcia

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted. ~ Ted Nugent

The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed. ~ Lyle Lovett

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice. ~ Jerry Garcia

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk. ~ Jerry Garcia

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere! ~ Jerry Garcia

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything. ~ Michael Bamberger

I have total respect for the self-contained rock artist. Whether you're dealing with Jerry Garcia or Lou Reed or Patti Smith or a Whitney or an Aretha, they know what they want with their career. ~ Clive Davis

Jerry [Garcia] held his guitar and picked some random licks. I spoke from an LSD haze.

'LSD changes perception. Music transcends the musician. You are the vehicle for communication.'

Garcia stopped and stared at me.

'I practice,' Garcia declared. 'Anyone can do that.'

That shut me up and he returned to the guitar ~ Rhoney Gissen Stanley

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! ~ Jerry Garcia

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 Garcia

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

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. ~ Jerry Garcia

Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. I wouldn't mind hanging, boys, but you wait in jail so long. ~ Jerry Garcia

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying! ~ Jerry Garcia

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone ~ 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

When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia
(former Grateful Dead guitarist) destroyed his life on
drugs. And yet hes being honored, like some godlike
figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks. ~ Rush Limbaugh

It's all part of it, man. ~ Jerry Garcia

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright ~ Jerry Garcia

Danny and I wrote 10 songs in seven days, which I thought might be close to the record until you probably look at some of the Beatles statistics. ~ Jerry Only

Mexican food is far more varied than people think. It changes like dialects. I was brought up in Jalisco by the sea on a basic diet - tomatoes, chillis, peppers of every size and rice, which is a Mexican staple. The Pacific coast has a huge array of seafood. ~ Gael Garcia Bernal

HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions a arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dung hill of war, the more the was resembled Amarant. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Jerry read for a good hour before he couldn't take any more of the graphic heterosexual love scenes. "Some ~ Eric Arvin

The,purpose,of,a,match?"
"To,start,a,fire,with."
No.
"To,store,up,fire,
And,to,keep,it,cool. ~ Jose Garcia Villa

What makes the teamwork effective is Cooperation which makes the team 'WORKS'. ~ Russell Van Garcia

More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. ~ Jerry Weller

Art is a self-replicating force. ~ Jerry Saltz

There were Casts for every conceivable purpose: Blinding the Unfaithful, Bringing Forth Water from the Sea, Binding the Runes. But nothing that said Cast to Uncurse Your Family from a Dark Binding, or Cast to Undo the Act of Trying to Bring Great-Great-Great-Great-Grandmother Genevieve's War Hero Back to Life, or Cast to Avoid Going Dark at Your Claiming. Or the one I was really looking for - Cast to Save Your Girlfriend (Now That You Finally Have One) Before It's Too Late. ~ Kami Garcia

The soul dies at the hand of the one who carries it. ~ Kami Garcia

There are more than 150 references to the fear of God in the Bible.6 While the majority of these occur in the Old Testament, there are a sufficient number in the New Testament to convince us that fearing God is indeed an attitude of heart we should cultivate today. ~ Jerry Bridges

Unknown guests, with invincible and worldly carousers, and it became necessary ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it. ~ Jerry Pournelle

No When. No Then. Only Now. ~ Jerry Spinelli

Variación / Variations"

El remanso de aire
bajo la rama del eco.

El remanso del agua
bajo fronda de luceros.

El remanso de tu boca
bajo espesura de besos.

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The still waters of the air
under the bough of the echo.

The still waters of the water
under a frond of stars.

The still waters of your mouth
under a thicket of kisses. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

Of course we did other things too. We walked. We talked. We rode bikes.
Though I had my driver's license, I bought a cheap secondhand bicycle so
I could ride with her. Sometimes she led the way, sometimes I did. Whenever
we could, we rode side by side.
She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.
She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh.
My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid
introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I
threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life ~ Jerry Spinelli

Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all. ~ Jerry Brown

Let us not be afraid to allow for post-visualization. By post-visualization I refer to the willingness on the part of the photographer to revisualize the final image at any point in the entire photographic process. ~ Jerry Uelsmann

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon. ~ Jerry Coleman

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities. ~ Joanna Garcia

In my first season I was learning about English football in a new team. I scored 13 which isn't bad, but I think I can do better. ~ Luis Garcia

Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division. ~ Jerry Brown

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do. ~ Jerry Bruckheimer

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field ... The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion. ~ Jerry Brown

Men, as an organization, are getting more women than any other group working anywhere in the world. Wherever women are, we have men looking into it. ~ Jerry Seinfeld

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science. ~ Jerry A. Coyne

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway. ~ Jerry Coleman

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine. ~ Jerry Bridges

eyes I can't find words to describe. ~ Jerry Hatchett