Jerry Garcia Quotes

• 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

• 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.

  Jerry Garcia

• 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.

  Jerry Garcia

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

  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

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

  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

• 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.

  Jerry Garcia

• And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there’s the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we’re gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don’t have control over.

  Jerry Garcia

• And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents – I mean, it’s gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

  Jerry Garcia

• And the live show is still our main thing.

  Jerry Garcia

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

  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

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

  Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia (34)

Birth:	1st August, 1942
Death:	9th August, 1995
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Lyricist

About

Jerome John Garcia was born in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known for his work as the lead guitarist with the band the Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s. With albums like American Beauty, the band toured for decades with a highly devoted “Deadhead” following. He studied at San Francisco Art Institute. He also founded and participated in a variety of side projects, including the Saunders-Garcia Band, the Jerry Garcia Band, Old and in the Way, Legion of Mary, and the New Riders of the Purple Sage. His albums list shown below: Garcia, Compliments, Reflections, and Run for the Roses.

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