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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.
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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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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I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.
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But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
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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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We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
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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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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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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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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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There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
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In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Nothing left to do but smile.
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We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don't like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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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.
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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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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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