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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

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
Jerome John Garcia
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Anywhere
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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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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.
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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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And the live show is still our main thing.
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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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And Warner Bros. seems to be pretty much into re-releasing all of their catalog. So there's the Warner Bros. stuff and the stuff that we have control over, we're gradually re-releasing it. Some stuff we don't have control over.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
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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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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Nothing left to do but smile.
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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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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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