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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.

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
Guitarist
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Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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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've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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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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If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.
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The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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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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