Jerry Garcia > Quotes

“What a long strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

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

“once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right”
― Jerry Garcia

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

“Nothing left to do but smile.”
― Jerry Garcia, The Wisdom of Jerry Garcia: As Collected from Interviews

“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

“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 the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.”
― Jerry Garcia

“The sun will shine in my back door one day..”
― 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

“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

“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

“Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright”
― Jerry Garcia

“Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart”
― Jerry Garcia

“every mind is at least as heavy as mine”
― 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

“I'm not Beethoven!”
― 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

“We're sort of like the town whore that's finally become an institution. We're finally becoming respectable.”
― 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

“what a long strange trip it's been”
― Jerry Garcia

“It’s all part of it, man.”
― Jerry Garcia

“What a long, strange trip it's been.”
― Jerry Garcia

“A leaf of all colors plays a golden-string fiddle
To a double-e waterfall over my back”
― 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

“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

“Sometimes we live no particular way but our own.”
― Jerry Garcia

“Lady finger,
dipped in moonlight,
writing what for
across the morning sky.”
― Jerry Garcia