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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

Jerry Garcia

I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music.
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Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing
We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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Age Everybody New Play Really Religious Service Thigh
I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive.
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Biological Drive Evolution Question Survive Term
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
I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.
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Boredom Lock Nothing Point Reference Room Save Ultimately View
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
And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Lifetime Material More Still Twenty Use
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 Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service
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
I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Blue Certainty Country Kind Like Link Music Only Play Purist Stuff
I’m trying to have a guitar built. What’s needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.
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Amplifire Better Electric Get Hardware Instrument Music Need Try
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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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It’s not in the Bill of Rights.
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Bill Happiness Kind Overview Pursuit Thing Tight
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

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