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Jerome John Garcia was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for being a principal songwriter, the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was the founding member and of this band, which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 1960s
Full name: Jerome John Garcia.
Born: 1 August 1942 Born in: San Francisco, California, United States
Died: 9 August 1995
Occupation: American rapper, singer, and songwriter
These famous Jerry Garcia quotes on love, peace, politics, life are wise, motivational, and funny which you can relate to.
Jerry Garcia Quotes
- “I’m not Beethoven!” ― Jerry Garcia
- “It’s all part of it, man.” ― Jerry Garcia
- “In my world, everything is legal.” – Jerry Garcia
- “I’ve opted for fun in this lifetime.” – Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Quotes About Fun
- “What a long strange trip it’s been.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Every silver lining has a touch of grey.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Every mind is at least as heavy of mine.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Well, you know Tom, I’m no health nut.” – Jerry Garcia
- “And the live show is still our main thing.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Don’t tell me this town ‘aint got no heart.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it.” – Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Quotes About Music
- “The sun will shine in my back door one day..” – Jerry Garcia
- “Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Oh well, a touch of gray kind of suits you anyway.” – Jerry Garcia
- “If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.” – Jerry Garcia
- “You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.” – Jerry Garcia
- “The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.” – Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Quotes
- “Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright.” – Jerry Garcia
- “I sat down to my supper, was a bottle of red whiskey.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Death comes to you no matter what you do in this life.” – Jerry Garcia
- “It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Nothing left to do but smile.” ― Jerry Garcia, The Wisdom of Jerry Garcia
- “Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!” – Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Life Quotes
- “A box of rain will ease the pain, and love will see you through.” – Jerry Garcia
- “I don’t know, don’t really care, let there be songs to fill the air.” – Jerry Garcia
- “I’m shopping around for something to do that no one will like.” – Jerry Garcia
- “All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!” – Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Political Quotes
- “Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.” – Jerry Garcia
- “And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.” – Jerry Garcia
- “You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!” – Jerry Garcia
Best Quotes By Jerry Garcia
- “Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing what for across the morning sky.” ― Jerry Garcia
- “Now there is no place you can go where you don’t hear certain types of music.” – Jerry Garcia
- “We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.” – Jerry Garcia
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- “We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.” – Jerry Garcia
- “The bigger issue was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Where does it say in the scriptures you can’t get high or raise your consciousness?” – Jerry Garcia
- “Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.” – Jerry Garcia
- “America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.” – Jerry Garcia
- “A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle To a double-e waterfall over my back” ― Jerry Garcia
- “What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right.” – Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Quotes Pictures
- “I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.” – Jerry Garcia
- “To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.” – Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia Sayings
- “Stuff that’s hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don’t know what it does.” – Jerry Garcia
- “So we are pretty convinced we don’t want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.” – Jerry Garcia
- “So I’ll dance and we will sing for it doesn’t mean a thing to remember that the only time is now.” – Jerry Garcia
- “You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Standing on the moon with nothing left to do. Lovely view of heaven, but I’d rather be with you.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.” – Jerry Garcia
- “We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Hang me, oh, hang me, so I’ll be dead and gone. I wouldn’t mind hanging, boys, but you wait in jail so long.” ― Jerry Garcia
- “We’re sort of like the town whore that’s finally become an institution. We’re finally becoming respectable.” – 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
- “Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.” – Jerry Garcia
- “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.” – Jerry Garcia
- “For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.” – Jerry Garcia
- “What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.” – Jerry Garcia
- “If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.” – Jerry Garcia
- “I could have made the film a lot more disturbing than it is, … But my whole point was to inspire people to take action.” – Jerry Garcia
- “It’s the same story the crow told me, it’s the only one he knows. Like the morning sun you come, and like the wind you go.” – Jerry Garcia
- “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.” – Jerry Garcia
- “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.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Seems like everything lead up to this day and it’s just like every day that’s ever been. Sun goin’ up and then the sun it goin’ down.” ― Jerry Garcia
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another, and I would try and play it.” – Jerry Garcia
- “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.” – Jerry Garcia
- “We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.” – Jerry Garcia
- “For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.” – Jerry Garcia
- “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
- “I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.” – Jerry Garcia
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “These are bush elections, dull and unpleasant by and large. Doors are closing everywhere and the opportunity to do something adventurous and fun has gotten narrower and narrower.” – Jerry Garcia
- “Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’” – 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
- “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.” – Jerry Garcia
- “As a musician, you fall into certain patterns that you’re not conscious of unless you start listening to yourself on tape a lot. If you do that you start recognizing habits; then you have to try and break them.” – Jerry Garcia
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