Jerry Garcia Quotes

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

Evil, Two, Choosing

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.
Jerry Garcia

Money, Bad, Problem

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
Jerry Garcia

Society, Character, Real

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

Live, Poverty, Themselves

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 that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
Jerry Garcia

Music, Best, Emotional

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.
Jerry Garcia

Mean, Find, Grateful

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

Around, Shopping

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

Spiritual, Political, Real

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
Jerry Garcia

Death, Mean, Die

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia

Life, Death, Matter

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

Stuff, Scary, Hidden

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

Problem, Far, Stuff

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
Jerry Garcia

Music, Government, Mean

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

Nature, America, Mostly

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
Jerry Garcia

Life, Society, Live

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

Strong, Audience, Suit

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.
Jerry Garcia

Enough, Problem, Ourselves

And the live show is still our main thing.
Jerry Garcia

Live, Show, Main

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.
Jerry Garcia

Parents, Mean, Kids

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

Material, Lifetimes

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
Jerry Garcia

Nice, Sometimes, Write

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
Jerry Garcia

Patience, Grateful, Dead

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 success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
Jerry Garcia

Success, Music, Business

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.
Jerry Garcia

Control, Pretty, Stuff

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
Jerry Garcia

Successful, Fact, Books

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 1, 1942

Died: August 9, 1995

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