Jerry Garcia Quotes

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."

"Well, you know Tom, I'm no health nut"

"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully."

"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."

"Friend of the Devil."

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

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

"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional."

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

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

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

"If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"And the live show is still our main thing."

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

"But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin."