Quote of the Day

[SunshineSue]

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

--Douglas Adams

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[SunshineSue]

There is no one who has ever created music with the combination of intelligence, intuition, depth, creativity, and humor that Jerry Garcia has. His work and life will continue to be a limitless source of inspiration for all of us.

--Neal Casal

[SunshineSue]

Jerry was the Grateful Dead not because he was the band's unofficial leader or its icon, but because of his noble spirit and stupefying resilience.

--Rock Scully

[SunshineSue]

Jerry’s greatness is self-evident: it drew us to him and kept us in orbit for years, and we remain here in his firmament, wishing that crashed dark star were instead a comet whose return must simply be calculated.

--David Gans

[SunshineSue]

There’s no way to measure his greatness. Or magnitude as a person or as a player. He was that great. Much more than a superb musician with an uncanny ear and dexterity. He is the very spirit personified of whatever is muddy river country at its core and screams up into the spheres. Jerry had no equal.

--Bob Dylan

[SunshineSue]

Jerry had this ineffable sweetness and vulnerability, even when he was playing his wildest up-in-the-spheres stuff. It’s something you don’t really see that often in musicians working in this field. We never really talked about this, because it was so obvious to all of us, but he knew he wasn’t making that music; it was like he was just up there quoting or transcribing what it was that was being given to him or coming through him, as we all were in the best moments. That’s the goal that we strive for, that we still strive for.

--Phil Lesh

[SunshineSue]

Jerry was the best musician I ever played with. He was 100 percent music. Every pore, every bit of his body, every molecule, was music, whether he liked it or not. He was like a Miles Davis or a Coltrane or somebody like that – just completely locked into it. I always felt that I could hear in his music him talking about things at a much deeper level than what appeared on the surface. There aren’t many musicians who have that gift – to be really profound.

--Bill Kreutzmann

[SunshineSue]

Jerry knocked a chunk out of the wall and let the light shine through, and it's up to us to keep that light shining through, or someday we are going to have to answer to him.

--Ken Kesey

[SunshineSue]

I see him in my dreams all the time. I hear him when I'm on stage. I would say I can't talk to him, but I can. I don't miss him. He's here. He's with me.

--Bob Weir