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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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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
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Guitarist
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Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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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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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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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 only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.
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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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Right now, America is under the gun. It's being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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every mind is at least as heavy as mine
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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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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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The sun will shine in my back door one day.
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The Japanese are hard to figure out.
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And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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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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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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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.
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And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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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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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
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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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