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I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.

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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If the thunder don't get ya then the lightning will.
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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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The world has to tell us. In other words, we don't have an agenda or a battle plan or a map or a direction or anything. We're just going along, and our world is telling us.
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The Japanese are hard to figure out.
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