Jerry Garcia Quotes

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

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

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Nothing left to do but smile.

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.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.

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.

To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom.

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.

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

Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!

If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

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.

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

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.