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Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

Jerry Garcia

American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
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
It’s a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things.
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Desire Drug Greed Joke Separate Take Think
Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty
To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.
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Alive Cat Church Constant Country Everyone Hear History Kind Music Open Radio Record Street
We are experiencing a real confusion here in the United States, you know. Why is it OK to drink, but it’s not OK to take drugs?
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Confusion Drink Drug Experience Real States United
If you’re able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.
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Amount Devote Energy Enjoy Life Out Reasonable Something Work
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Do Gformulate Nature Non Something
You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
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Change Each Everything Repeat Thing Time Universe
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Choose Constant Evil Lesser Still Two
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 there’s a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents.
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Bring Grandparent Kid Lot Parents People Stuff
It’s much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.
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Alte Anything Much Rock Too
I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Askin Believe Know Lot Love
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Best Consider Do Merely One Only
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing

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