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Right now, America is under the gun. It’s being tested and is being co-opted in a big way.

Jerry Garcia

I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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Human Light Little People Possibly Religious Repress Unhappy
If something doesn’t work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn’t going to work.
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Go Immediately Obvious Something Work
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
Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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Been Earth Ever Everything Far Faster Must Slow Still Traditional
We’re involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.
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Change Involve Now Really Society Some Undergoing Weird
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
I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren’t many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.
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Black Buttermilk Deadhead Equate Licorice Like Many People Really
What we’re thinking about is a peaceful planet. We’re not thinking about anything else.
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Anything Else Peaceful Planet Think
It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Culture Matter Music Play Something Together
Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody. We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life.
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Able Anybody Hurt Life Like Nobody Unclutter
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
It turned out to be tremendously lucky. It’s just repellent enough to filter curious onlookers and just quirky enough that parents don’t like it.
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Curious Enough Filter Onlooker Out Parent Quirly Repellent Tremendously Tune
It’s pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
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Chaos Clear Counterculture Kind Look might Pretty Reality Some Undiferentiate Weirdness
For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.
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Apart Cities Lame Part Political Real Social
For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
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Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
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
You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing.
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Get Idea Music One Past 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
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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Country Mostly Nature Racist Still Think Xenophobic
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet
I’m goin’ where the wind don’t blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.
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Blow Chain Going High Maybe Mountain Some Strange Wind
Blah, blah, blah. What’s a crime? What’s criminality? What can you do, what can’t you do, and so forth. All these things are really confusing. A lot of it is really contradictory; it doesn’t really make sense.
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Blah Confuse Contradictory Crime Criminality Make Really Sense
American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
The thing I would like to be able to do is to make the music sound right no matter what it is. If somebody else wants to have a label for it, then that’s their business.
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Able Business Else Label Make Matter Music Right Somebody Sound Thing
Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.
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Forte Hunter Melody Nice Really Serviceable Something Sometimes
There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don’t know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.
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Everybody Key Need Reality Same Something Thing Virtual

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