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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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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you'll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future! Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.
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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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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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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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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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You need to have many points of reference many places to touch down and make contact with.
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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll 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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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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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.
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At some point or another, our boundaries run into the boundaries of the exterior reality. Like we run into laws and other things that we don't own or don't have control over.
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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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