I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little...

— Jerry Garcia

Jerry Garcia Quotes

Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright.

— Jerry Garcia

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.

— Jerry Garcia

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!

— Jerry Garcia

We’ve been trying to sell out for years, nobody’s buying!

— Jerry Garcia

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap – I think there’s a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.

— Jerry Garcia

See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.

— 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

I’m not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it’s just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There’s a lot of people who are committed to – soulfully.

— Jerry Garcia

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

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

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

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

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

So we are pretty convinced we don’t want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

— Jerry Garcia

I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.

— Jerry Garcia

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

— Jerry Garcia

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

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

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

— Jerry Garcia

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
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