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Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times.

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
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Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.
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The sun will shine in my back door one day.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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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 pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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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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We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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