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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
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San Francisco County
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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 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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You can't repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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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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Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it's Alright
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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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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
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And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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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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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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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.
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And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
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every mind is at least as heavy as mine
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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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