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And the live show is still our main thing.
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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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 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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
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