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To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

Jerry Garcia

And as far as I’m concerned, it’s like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem.
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Concern Drug Far Like Problem Stuff
Listening. That’s what music is about. You hear it. And I’d listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.
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Listen Music What
Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
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
The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
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Able Bein Enlarge Great Point See Thing Through View
The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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Big Biggest Corporation Food Industry Issue Takeover Whole
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
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Catch Change Consciousness Everything Happen Important Matter Mistsly Thing
The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That’s reality. The reality that’s being talked about is something else entirely.
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Around Block Else Eternity Outside Reality Something Talk Walk
Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
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Conscious Else Everything Evolution Forget High Molecule Really See Understand Universal Yourself
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
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Art Get Level Production Satisfaction Some Work
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.
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Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
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.
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Bit Context First Fragment Human Moral Piece Rather Religion Superstructural
There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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Bliss Fun Joy Need Real Ritual

To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.

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