Jerry Garcia Professions : Musician Born : August 1, 1942 Died : August 9, 1995 Browse All Authors Top 168 quotes by Jerry Garcia 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 grateful patience world So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well. Jerry Garcia stadiums want play 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 too-late mean past You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones that do what you do. Jerry Garcia My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do. Jerry Garcia rock classic guitar want The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things. Jerry Garcia try you aesthetic guitar 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. Jerry Garcia me you morning today My kids seem to be more mature and older than I am now somehow. They've gotten ahead of me somehow. But they're very patient with me. Jerry Garcia ahead i-am me mature Similar Authors Adam Jones musician Izzy Stradlin musician Bon Scott musician Brad Delp musician Brad Delson musician Brian Eno musician All Authors