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And there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.

Jerry Garcia

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 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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Black Buttermilk Deadhead Equate Licorice Like Many People Really
Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Decision Each Energy Go Happen Land Make Person Whether
Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You’re Alive Is By How Much Pain You’re Experiencing, Or How Little.
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Alive Experience How Little Much Pain Part Partly Tell Way
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.
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Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Chaos Clear Counterculture Kind Look might Pretty Reality Some Undiferentiate Weirdness
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Choose Constant Evil Lesser Still Two
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.
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City Come Every Government Idea Once Plumb Way
You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Gonna Learn Now Wanna
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
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
I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Anywhere Different Effort Guitar Just Lead See Try
We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Confusion Drink Drug Experience Real States United
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
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
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

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