Jerry Garcia Quotes

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

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

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.

Nothing left to do but smile.

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

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.

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.

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.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

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