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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

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.
JERRY GARCIA

Amount Devote Energy Enjoy Life Out Reasonable Something Work
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.
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Best Do Enough One Only Perceive What
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Able Good Life Like Live Simple Uncluttered
I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Cities Government Mean
What a long strange trip it’s been.
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Beem Long Strange Trip
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
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Ball Character Need Nerve Quality Real Society Whatever
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
Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it’s been.
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Barely Lately Light Long Occur Other See Shine Sometimes Strange Trip
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
We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.
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Bliss Celebration Encapsulate Good Live Lot Magic Music Myth Need Power Religion
Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.
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Being Big Coopted Country Gun Now Right Test Under Way
… 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
What’s been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.
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Get Great Human might Race Reach Sense
Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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How Magic Music
What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you’re not getting the whole thing that’s there to be had.
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Consciousness Evil Get Good Life Manifestation Reject Try 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.
JERRY GARCIA

Big Circus Ever Expect Famous Fortune Interest Popular Pretty Result Show Sullivan Top Worship

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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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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