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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.

Jerry Garcia

I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
JERRY GARCIA

Askin Believe Know Lot Love
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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Definite Every May Some Thing Time Various Work
Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat.
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Defeat Done Lock Sone Stress Time Unswing Up
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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Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
… 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
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
You don’t want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.
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Best One Only Want What
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
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Dialect Language Music Powerful Some Think Universal Very
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
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Clean Next Person Talk
We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Area Certainly Fun Idea Large More Particular Quite Restrict Satisfy Style
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Big Coopted Country Gun Now Right Test Under Way

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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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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