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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.
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
Composer
Film Director
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
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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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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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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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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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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 the live show is still our main thing.
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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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You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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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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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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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.
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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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