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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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Individualism
Anywhere
Listen
Society
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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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And the live show is still our main thing.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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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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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.
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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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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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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.
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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.
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It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.
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There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
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If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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