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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

Jerry Garcia

It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
JERRY GARCIA

Curious Enough Filter Onlooker Out Parent Quirly Repellent Tremendously Tune
You have to be ready, and also you have to discard notions that are fondly held by a lot of musicians, about sequences and notes and about scales and musical systems as a whole. If you think of music as a language, the space part is where you throw out all the syntax.
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Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
JERRY GARCIA

Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
Music is a universal language insofar as you don’t need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Else Insofar Language Music Musician Need Play Universal
Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
JERRY GARCIA

Been Earth Ever Everything Far Faster Must Slow Still Traditional
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

Analyze Emotion Fundamental Interstm Try Know Music Some Something Ultimate
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
JERRY GARCIA

Do Gformulate Nature Non Something
You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Change Each Everything Repeat Thing Time Universe
To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
JERRY GARCIA

Basic Freedom Happiness Key Me Pursuit Thing Ultimate
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Big Coopted Country Gun Now Right Test Under Way
I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
JERRY GARCIA

Every Know Time When Happen
See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
JERRY GARCIA

Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
JERRY GARCIA

Defeat Done Lock Sone Stress Time Unswing Up
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIA

Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
JERRY GARCIA

Consciousness Evil Get Good Life Manifestation Reject Try Whole
We were just in line to see what was going to happen.
JERRY GARCIA

Going Happen Just Line See Were

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

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I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

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