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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Jerry Garcia

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Jerry Garcia
Age: 53 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 1
Died: 1995
Died: August 9
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.
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We didn't invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead. We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
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There is no dogma, there isn't anything about how the universe works.
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There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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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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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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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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American society has gone completely into denial.
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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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What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense. The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
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I am not a keyboard person. The mouse is better.
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But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.
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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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We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!
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It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.
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