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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.

Jerry Garcia

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
Banjoist
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Film Director
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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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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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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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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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
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