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You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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 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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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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Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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One of the things that's attractive about cyberspace is that it can be construed as no threat. If you see it through the video game keyhole, the amusement keyhole, the entertainment keyhole, it is no threat. If you see it through the LSD keyhole, the consciousness-expanding keyhole, it's like electronic drugs: it is a threat.
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In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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