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I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.
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But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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