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Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Jerry Garcia

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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San Francisco County
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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We are not completely autonomous.
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And the live show is still our main thing.
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We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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