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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.

Jerry Garcia

The context has to come from the human first, rather than bits and pieces of fragments of old religion and all of the old moral superstructure, whatever it used to be.
JERRY GARCIA

Bit Context First Fragment Human Moral Piece Rather Religion Superstructural
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
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.
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Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Conscious Else Everything Evolution Forget High Molecule Really See Understand Universal Yourself
You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Gonna Learn Now Wanna
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Being Big Coopted Country Gun Now Right Test Under Way
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Best Consider Do Merely One Only
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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Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Bring Grandparent Kid Lot Parents People Stuff
To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Alive Cat Church Constant Country Everyone Hear History Kind Music Open Radio Record Street
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Best Expect Future Hope Life Live Worst
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Able Anybody Hurt Life Like Nobody Unclutter
I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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Characterized Excuse Good Know Life Pain Particularly Think Unhappy
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Apart Cities Lame Part Political Real Social
Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.
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Amount Art Cultural Lot More Music Objective Surprise Think

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