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We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
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The Japanese are hard to figure out.
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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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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.
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.
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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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The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.
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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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And the live show is still our main thing.
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
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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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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 only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.
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There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
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