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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

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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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
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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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You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
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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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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
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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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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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You need to have many points of reference many places to touch down and make contact with.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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