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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.

Jerry Garcia

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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San Francisco County
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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I like all the kinds of music I've been into. I'm certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff. The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that's their business.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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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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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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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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And the live show is still our main thing.
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For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.
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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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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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You need to have many points of reference many places to touch down and make contact with.
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