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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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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
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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We are not completely autonomous.
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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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Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.
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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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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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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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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.
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If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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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 am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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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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