Jerry Garcia

Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

— Jerry Garcia

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and…

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Jerry Garcia

Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is…

— Jerry Garcia

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

— Jerry Garcia

Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

— Jerry Garcia

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is…

— Jerry Garcia

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking…

— Jerry Garcia

See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good…

— 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…

— Jerry Garcia

The performances in the future would be like an audience wired to somebody who was sort of instigating, and then moment-to-moment creation…

— Jerry Garcia

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a…

— Jerry Garcia

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do,…

— Jerry Garcia

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…

— Jerry Garcia

What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that…

— Jerry Garcia

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think…

— Jerry Garcia

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or…

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Jerry Garcia

Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

— Jerry Garcia

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know.…

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Jerry Garcia

You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with.

— Jerry Garcia

“A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back”

— Jerry Garcia

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules…

— Jerry Garcia

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one…

— 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

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

— 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…

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Jerry Garcia

Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You…

— Jerry Garcia

In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which…

— Jerry Garcia

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about…

— Jerry Garcia

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…

— Jerry Garcia

The nature of what we're doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic. There's no way that you can…

— Jerry Garcia

As a musician you fall into certain patterns that you're not conscious of, unless you start listening to yourself on tape a…

— Jerry Garcia

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I…

— Jerry Garcia

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the…

— Jerry Garcia

Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows…

— 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…

— Jerry Garcia

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality…

— Jerry Garcia