Jerry Garcia Quotes

• Where does it say in the Scriptures you can’t get high or raise your consciousness?

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

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

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• Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be – if we want the quality of the shows to be good, and we want the energy to be high, and if we want to be in good enough physical shape to do them, and not exhaust ourselves on the road, and not get stale, we have to pace.

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

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• 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.

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• The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap – I think there’s a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

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• The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They’re going to start to count for something. Because there’s only a limited amount of us-time available to us.

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

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

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• So it’s one of those things where we have to – our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don’t want to burn the audience. And we don’t want to be excluding anybody.

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

   

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money’s the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

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• 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.

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

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• I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

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

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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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