You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back” — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think we have to. If we want our shows to be - if we want the quality of the shows to be… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
