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… 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.’

Jerry Garcia

Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Anybody Hurt Life Like Nobody Unclutter
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
Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
JERRY GARCIA

Been Earth Ever Everything Far Faster Must Slow Still Traditional
Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.
JERRY GARCIA

Adventure Enlarge Everybody Live Need Something
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
JERRY GARCIA

How Magic Music
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Drug Experiment Fortunate History Legal Little Music Time
How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn’t get exposed to.
JERRY GARCIA

Beethoven Expose Just Lack Training World
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Licorice Like People Really
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
JERRY GARCIA

Country Mostly Nature Racist Still Think Xenophobic
Nothing left to do but smile.
JERRY GARCIA

But Do Left Nothing Smile
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Decision Each Energy Go Happen Land Make Person Whether
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Else Insofar Language Music Musician Need Play Universal
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.
JERRY GARCIA

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.
JERRY GARCIA

Also Discard Fond Held Lot Music Musician Notion Ready Seuemce System Whole
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
JERRY GARCIA

Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use

… 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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… 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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