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.”

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

“What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else.”

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

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

“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.”

“I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.”

“You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.”

“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.”

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

“To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else.”

“Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it.”

“Our audience is like people who like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.”

“I don't want to be the leader. I want to be a participant. I want to be in the band.”

“The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.”

“And the music is too loud for knocking.”