What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power. We're not thinking about any kind of struggles. We're not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That's not what we want. Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life. A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.

Jerry Garcia

"The Grateful Dead is forever"

"It stumbles, then it creeps, then it flies with one wing and then it flies with one wing and bumps into trees and shit"

Newspaperman: Who are you guys?
Jerry: Well, I just see us as a lof of good-time pirates. I'd like to apologize in advance to anybody who believes we're something really serious. The seriousness comes up as lightness and I think that's the way it should be. The important thing is that everybody be comfortable. Live what you have to live and be comfortable.

Drugs to me are like food

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

"Hey I know man but that would be the hippest"

"Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going somewhere else"
Jerry Garcia

People who use formula things on the audience are basically manipulating them

in the same sense that fascism manipulates people