Jerry Garcia

What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power.…

— Jerry Garcia

“Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. I wouldn't mind hanging, boys, but you wait in jail so…

— 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

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may…

— Jerry Garcia

... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't…

— 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

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

— Jerry Garcia

At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other…

— Jerry Garcia

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

— Jerry Garcia

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright

— Jerry Garcia

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.

— Jerry Garcia

You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities…

— Jerry Garcia

We are not completely autonomous.

— Jerry Garcia

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

— 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

It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the…

— 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

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

— Jerry Garcia

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for…

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Jerry Garcia

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An…

— 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

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

— Jerry Garcia

And the live show is still our main thing.

— Jerry Garcia