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If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.

Jerry Garcia

There’s a lot there to enlarge you. That’s part of the value of being in an extended family is that it enlarges you. It makes you bigger. It makes you more.
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Being Bigger Enlarge Make More Part Value
An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.
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Consciousness Need No Organism Really Survive
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?’
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Again Easier Experience Myself Nobody Place Psychedelic Some Stop
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
I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.
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Analyze Emotion Fundamental Interstm Try Know Music Some Something Ultimate
The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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Come Dialect Differentiate Example Language Like Nothing Part Play Set
Truth is something you stumble into when you think you’re going someplace else.
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Go Someplace Something Stumble Think Truth
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
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
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Authentic Death Die Kill Matter Mean
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
I know when it happens. I know it when it happens every time.
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Every Know Time When Happen
In folk music, I’ve always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don’t know anything about the characters, you don’t know what they’re doing, but they’re doing something important. I love that. I’m really a sucker for that kind of song.
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Always Anything Been Character Folk Fond Fragment Music One Song Verse
Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
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Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past Thing
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Actual Carried Dance Get Happen High Listen Lot Politician Real Really Sweaty

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