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Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another and I would try and play it.

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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Singer-Songwriter
San Francisco County
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