Quotes from Jerry Garcia

The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

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

once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

Nothing left to do but smile.

If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

The sun will shine in my back door one day..

Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone

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

Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

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

I'm not Beethoven!

What a long, strange trip it's been.

We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable.

For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.

It's all part of it, man.