If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. Jerry Garcia More Quotes by Jerry Garcia More Quotes From Jerry Garcia Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Jerry Garcia hoping-for-the-bestexpectinglive-life Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn't even talk about. We know it's there. The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially. We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that's what it's all about really. Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen - that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen. I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time. Jerry Garcia realreligiousspiritual We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now. Jerry Garcia involvedreally-weird You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do. Jerry Garcia insightfulworkmotivational 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. Jerry Garcia what-is-lifeconsciousnessevil I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever. Jerry Garcia blackpeople If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will. Jerry Garcia thunderlightningifs We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life. Jerry Garcia good-lifesimple-lifesimple You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it. Jerry Garcia catpastideas The nature of what we're doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic. There's no way that you can make it happen by intention alone. It's something that you have to sort of allow it to happen, and you have to allow for it to happen. Jerry Garcia intentionhappensway What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be. Jerry Garcia piecesneedsfirsts Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know. Jerry Garcia energydecisionwant We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen. Jerry Garcia crowdsgratefullines In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song. Jerry Garcia importantsongcharacter And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another. Jerry Garcia nextrealtrying 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. Jerry Garcia lockslove-youbelieve America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think. Jerry Garcia racistamericathinking I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large. Jerry Garcia gratefuladventurethinking Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives. Jerry Garcia adventureneeds You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed. Jerry Garcia repeatschangeddifferent
