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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
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It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.
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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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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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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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It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.
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Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.
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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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There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
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every mind is at least as heavy as mine
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You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.
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