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Jerry Garcia

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  • “We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.” -Jerry Garcia

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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.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it’s not a Grateful Dead project, it’s a Me project.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “I’m not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it’s just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There’s a lot of people who are committed to – soulfully.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money’s the problem. But drugs are just drugs.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.” -Jerry Garcia

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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.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “We’re not uncomfortable with it, and we’ve already been through enough of the music business where I’m not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way – we’re already past saving, you know what I mean? It’s too late for us.” -Jerry Garcia

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  • “I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.” -Jerry Garcia

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