Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garciawas an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s. Though he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth1 August 1942
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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 doingquite well for themselves.
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills
the largest biological experiment man has ever entered into.
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.
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.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
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.
It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.