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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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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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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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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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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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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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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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We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.
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I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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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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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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