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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

Jerry Garcia

Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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Decision Each Energy Go Happen Land Make Person Whether
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
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
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
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
We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us – certainly more satisfying, because it doesn’t restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style.
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Area Certainly Fun Idea Large More Particular Quite Restrict Satisfy Style
American society has gone completely into denial.
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Completely Country Gone People Society
If the thunder don’t get ya then the lightning will.
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Get Light Thunder Will
Nothing left to do but smile.
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But Do Left Nothing Smile
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
Too much of a good thing is just about right
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Good Just Much Right Thing
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
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
Whistle through your teeth and spit cuz, it’s Alright
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Alright Teethm Spit Through Whistle
A simple life, a good life. And think about moving the whole human race ahead a step, or a few steps.
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Ahead Few Good Human Life Move Race Simple Step
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
The thing of being able to share somebody’s reality, which has so far been a matter of what communication is about, you know.
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Able Been Being Communication Far Matter Reality Share So Somebody Thing
If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
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All Anything Assume Dynamic Learn Life Play Reason
I know what I’m askin’. I know it’s a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.
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Askin Believe Know Lot Love
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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Actually Experience Leg New Reality Somebody Specifically Step Through Walk Whole
The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.
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Art Get Level Production Satisfaction Some Work
Live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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Best Expect Future Hope Life Live Worst
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
You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do.
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Best Consider Do Merely One Only
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
I think it’s too bad that everybody’s decided to turn on drugs, I don’t think drugs are the problem.
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Cop Crime Decide Drug Everybody Just Money Problem Think
I’ll try any guitar just to see if it’s different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere.
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Anywhere Different Effort Guitar Just Lead See Try

And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

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