Jerry Garcia Quotes: top 63 famous quotes about Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia Quotes & Sayings

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I'm not Beethoven! — Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully. — Ornette Coleman

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

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

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

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

Nothing left to do but smile. — Jerry Garcia

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

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. — Jerry Garcia

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

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

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia. — Branford Marsalis

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

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

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

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. — Jerry Garcia

Every silver lining has a touch of grey. — Jerry Garcia

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

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

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

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

Too much of a good thing is just about right — Jerry Garcia

And the live show is still our main thing. — Jerry Garcia

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Jerry Garcia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil. — Jerry Garcia

You know, it's cigarettes that killed Jerry Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes. — John Mellencamp

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

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

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president. — Grace Slick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Her one big cheat had been and always would be Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia; she simply could not see a world without it! — Julia Mills