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I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn't fit humans. Humans can't possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed. It is a religion that works against you because the template don't fit. It's not human, you know.
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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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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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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory it doesn't really make sense.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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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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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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Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.
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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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The Japanese are hard to figure out.
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I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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