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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

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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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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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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Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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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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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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Anywhere Get Know Listen never Society
Now it has gotten a whole new leg. It has gotten a thing of being able to actually step in somebody’s reality and walk through it like they do, experience it the way they do, specifically.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The implications, to me, are immense. I mean, how far can it go?
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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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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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Listen River Rock Sing Song Soul Sweet
America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That’s the nature of America, I think.
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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
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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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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Daed Essentially Grateful Play Religious Service
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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Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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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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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
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
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.
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The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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Clean Next Person Talk
The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Some things may work, but they definitely won’t work every time. Some things may work at various times.
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If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.
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Evil Lesser Pick Still Two

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