Quotes By Jerry Garcia

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

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

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

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 read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Hunter 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.

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

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win!

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

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.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.

One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat.

I recognize that as a musician there is a certain chauvinism attached to it, which is the thing of, "I spent my time learning how to play. You didn't spend time learning how to play, therefore, you are not a musician."

This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.

I've opted for fun in this lifetime.

Every mind is at least as heavy as mine.

Rap is not music, it's talking.

I'm not Beethoven!

We're like bad architecture and old whores. Eventually you become respectable.