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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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San Francisco County
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Truth is something you stumble into when you think you're going someplace else.
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I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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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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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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And the live show is still our main thing.
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If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.
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