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In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

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
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
California
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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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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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I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.
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The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.
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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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You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
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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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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
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I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
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Sometimes you have to be clever.
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The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.
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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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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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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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Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart
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