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Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.

Jerry Garcia

Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win!
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Always Faster Further Higher Jump Raech Run Win
… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
You listen to a politician making a speech, and it is like hearing nothing. Whereas, music is unmistakably music.
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Hear Like Listen Make Music Nothing Politician Speech Unmistakably
And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Clean Next Person Talk
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Drug Experiment Fortunate History Legal Little Music Time
I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Human Light Little People Possibly Religious Repress Unhappy
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
We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Change Involve Now Really Society Some Undergoing Weird
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.
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Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole
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 know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Askin Believe Know Lot Love
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
It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Culture Matter Music Play Something Together
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
You need music, I don’t know why. It’s probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual.
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Campbell Music Need One Probably Question Ritual Those
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Catch Change Consciousness Everything Happen Important Matter Mistsly Thing

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