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The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

Jerry Garcia

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
Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing
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
What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Anything Else Peaceful Planet Think
In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.
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Bottom End Hard Light Real Stuff Top Universe
It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.
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Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What
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
We’re not thinking about any kind of power. We’re not thinking about any kind of struggles. We’re not thinking about revolution or war or any of that. That’s not what we want.
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Any Kind Power Revolution Struggle Think Want War
Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
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
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.
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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
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
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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All Anything Assume Dynamic Learn Life Play Reason
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.
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Anything Else Insofar Language Music Musician Need Play Universal

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