Jerry Garcia Quotes

I'm not Beethoven!

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

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

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

Nothing left to do but smile.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.

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

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

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

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

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

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

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.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

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

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

And the live show is still our main thing.

I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

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

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

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.

What a long strange trip it's been.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

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

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

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

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

It's all part of it, man.

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

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

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

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

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

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

Magic is what we do.
Music is how we do it.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ...

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

The sun will shine in my back door one day..

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

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

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

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

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

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

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

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.