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Jerry Garcia

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
The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
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
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Able Good Life Like Live Simple Uncluttered
The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Bill Happiness Kind Overview Pursuit Thing Tight
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
I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Every Know Time When Happen
The result, I think, is pretty interesting … we don’t expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top.
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Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship
To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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Basic Freedom Happiness Key Me Pursuit Thing Ultimate
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service
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.
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Analyze Emotion Fundamental Interstm Try Know Music Some Something Ultimate
Music goes way back before language does. And music is like the key to a whole spiritual existence which this society doesn’t even talk about. We know it’s there.
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Before Dead Essential Grateful Language Music Play Religious Service Talk Whole Spiritual
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop

I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.

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