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You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.

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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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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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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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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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And the live show is still our main thing.
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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 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 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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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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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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Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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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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See, there's only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that - the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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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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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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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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