"The fat man rocks out/Hinges fall off Heaven's door/'Come on in,' sez Bill" - Wavy Gravy

"If Jerry can be free, I want to be free too." - Bill Kreutzmann

"If you took all the paintings off the walls of the galleries and museums of the world and took all the sheet music off the stands of the orchestras of the world that were written or painted by a person who had a problem with drugs, you'd have a lot of blank walls and silent concert halls" - David Gans

"He was there for me when nobody was" - Bob Dylan

"It was not LSD or the sixties that made Jerry Garcia who he was. Jerry was always Jerry. Seemingly, he came into this world not only fully formed, but, as Bruce Springsteen once sang, with 'the diamond-hard look of a cobra.' That never changed. In his beginning may well have been his end. More importantly, both were always cloaked in mystery, perhaps even to him." - Robert Greenfield

"The loudest music possible must be blasting him through the gates of Heaven" - Sue Swanson

I guess that's what I mean about a loud silence....

It was the false notes you didn't play that kept the lead line so golden pure. It was the words you didn't sing. So this is what we are left with, Jerry: this golden silence. It rings on and on without any hint of let up...on and on, And I expect it will still be ringing years from now.

Because you're still not playing false. Because you're still not singing Things Go Better With Coke.

Ever your friend, Keez

By Ken Kesey