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
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills
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.
the largest biological experiment man has ever entered into.
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.
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.
Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.