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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
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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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With the recognition comes additional responsibility, because then we're no longer a one-shot. We're now part of the environment.
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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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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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In reality everybody has got musical thoughts. If you are able to overcome the part of it which is muscle training, which is what most musical playing actually is, performance actually is, is muscle training, and you are able to convert your ideas directly into music, you're a musician, too.
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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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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
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I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.
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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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The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.
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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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We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it's not OK to take drugs? Blah, blah, blah. What's a crime? What's criminality? What can you do, what can't you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory it doesn't really make sense.
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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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We are not completely autonomous.
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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
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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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