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We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.

Jerry Garcia

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.
JERRY GARCIA

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
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 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?’
JERRY GARCIA

Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop
If you go into a complete, like a cyberspace model of some type, in which… you know the discussion about the mind and the interaction between the mind and the universe as a holographic phenomenon.
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Complete Cyberspace Discussion Holographic InterAction Mind Model Phenomenon Universe
Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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Ever Grey Line Silver Touch
In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
JERRY GARCIA

Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIA

Country Mostly Nature Racist Still Think Xenophobic
You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
JERRY GARCIA

Change Each Everything Repeat Thing Time Universe
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
Nothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIA

But Do Left Nothing Smile
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIA

Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing
I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
JERRY GARCIA

Cop Crime Decide Drug Everybody Just Money Problem Think

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