"I owe a lot of who I am and what I've been and what I've done to the beatniks of the fifties and to the poetry and art and music that I've come into contact with. I feel like I'm part of a continuous line of a certain thing in American culture..." ~ Jerry Garcia- Rolling Stone
"For some people, taking LSD and going to a Dead show functions like a rite of passage.... Each person deals with the experience individually; it's an adventure that you can have that is personalized. But when people come together, this singular experience is ritualized. I think the Grateful Dead serves a desire for meaningful ritual, but it's ritual without dogma." ~ Jerry Garcia- Rock and Roll: An Unruly History
"Mostly we're always on the road, because we earn our living by playing. So we haven't had much of the luxury where you just go into the studio for no particular reason to screw around." ~ Jerry Garcia- Rock Lives
"For some people, taking LSD and going to a Dead show functions like a rite of passage.... Each person deals with the experience individually; it's an adventure that you can have that is personalized. But when people come together, this singular experience is ritualized. I think the Grateful Dead serves a desire for meaningful ritual, but it's ritual without dogma." ~ Jerry Garcia- Rock and Roll: An Unruly History
"Mostly we're always on the road, because we earn our living by playing. So we haven't had much of the luxury where you just go into the studio for no particular reason to screw around." ~ Jerry Garcia- Rock Lives