Jerry Garcia Quotes

I'm a fan and a friend, I met them in 1974 when I first joined the NBA and my life has never been he same since. I became the basketball player I was because of the Grateful Dead.

The future belongs to crowds.

You can forget anything, and actually being a part of a crowd, of a group, can itself be freeing.

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

As much as I have respect for him, this is for the crowd. The crowd didn't deserve what happened tonight.

The Deadheads are doing the dance of life and this I would say is the answer to the atom bomb.

During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.

We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus!.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

The crowd has a way of being right.

One person is nothing. Two people are a nation.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly - whether it's religion or politics or unions - things happen.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

This is not something insignificant. This is real. This is happening, and this is ours.

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

The purpose of theatre is... making an event in which a group of fragments are sudde nly brought together... in a community which, by the natural laws that make every community, gradually breaks up... At certain moments this fragmented world comes together and for a certain time it can rediscover the marvel of organic life ... The marvel of being one.

I think the other thing that's important is getting to a place, which very, very rarely happens with improvising groups, where somebody can decide not to play for a while. You watch any group of musicians improvising together and they nearly all play nearly all the time. In fact I often say that the biggest difference between classical music and everything else is that classical musicians sometimes shut up because they're told to, because the score tells them to. Whereas any music that's sort of based on folk or jazz, everybody plays all the time.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

I went to my first show [of the Grateful Dead], got right up front and never left. The incredible excitement, the family, the spirit, the hope, the happiness, all the different things I love and live for in life are there. The joy, the optimism, the teamwork, the experimentation, the exploration, the curiosity. No band has inspired more artwork, no band has inspired more books. No band has ever inspired a more loyal following and I'm involved in all of that stuff.

Music is a fundamental human right