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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
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I like all the kinds of music I've been into. I'm certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff. The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that's their business.
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In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.
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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.
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We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
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You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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 be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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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 pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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