Song Quotes by Jerry Garcia

Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it.

— Jerry Garcia

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

— Jerry Garcia

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

— Jerry Garcia

If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.

— Jerry Garcia

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

— Jerry Garcia

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

— Jerry Garcia

I like all the kinds of music I've been into. I'm certainly not a purist in that I will only play country…

— 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

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

— Jerry Garcia

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic,…

— Jerry Garcia

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang…

— 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…

— Jerry Garcia

You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about…

— Jerry Garcia

In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be.…

— Jerry Garcia

... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but…

— Jerry Garcia

Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with…

— 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

I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm…

— Jerry Garcia