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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
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Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
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The Japanese are hard to figure out.
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I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
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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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We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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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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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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every mind is at least as heavy as mine
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The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.
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But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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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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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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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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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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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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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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