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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
Banjoist
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Film Director
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Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.
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In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.
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The Japanese are hard to figure out.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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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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You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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You need to have many points of reference many places to touch down and make contact with.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.
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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
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I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
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And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.
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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
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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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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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