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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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If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
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See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another and I would try and play it.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.
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But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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The nature of what we're doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic. There's no way that you can make it happen by intention alone. It's something that you have to sort of allow it to happen, and you have to allow for it to happen.
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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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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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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.
Jerry Garcia
Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
Jerry Garcia
The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
Jerry Garcia
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.
Jerry Garcia
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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