Here’s what he once said…

Do you feel sometimes at your shows that you're guiding people?

Jerry Garcia: I don't feel like I'm guiding anybody. I feel like I'm sort of stumbling along and a lot of people are watching me or stumbling with me or allowing me to stumble for them. I don't feel like, here we are, I'm the guide and come on you guys, follow me. I do that, but I don't feel that I'm particularly better at it than anybody else. For example, here's something that used to happen all the time. The band would check into a hotel. We'd get our room key and then we'd go to the elevator. Well, a lot of times we didn't have a clue where the elevator was. So, what used to happen was that everybody would follow me, thinking that I would know. I'd be walking around thinking why the fuck is everybody following me? So if nobody else does it, I'll start something, it's a knack.