Quotes from Jerry Garcia

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

I listen to anything anyone gives me. I always go back to a few basic favorites. I can always listen to Django Reinhardt and hear something I haven't heard before. I like to listen to Art Tatum and Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Those are guys who never seem to run out of ideas.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

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

I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

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

And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

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

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

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

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

Too much of a good thing is just about right

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

It's all part of it, man.

And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

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.

Nothing left to do but smile.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.