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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.

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
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
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I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright
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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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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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The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap - I think there's a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
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every mind is at least as heavy as mine
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The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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