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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.
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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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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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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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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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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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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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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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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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Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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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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