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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

Jerry Garcia

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
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Able Adventure Being Country Dead Grateful Kind Large Out Represent Spirit Think
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 nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Do Gformulate Nature Non Something
We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.
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Able Good Life Like Live Simple Uncluttered
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
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
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
What we need is something, a definition of a human, starting from the ground up, so that the suitable moral structure that goes around it makes sense.
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Allow Alone Happen Intention Make No Something Sort Way
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
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
… Grateful Dead – that’s it !! … nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn’t like it, either, but it got around that that was one of the candidates for our new name, and everyone else said, ‘Yeah, that’s great.’
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Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
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
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I’m more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
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Apparently Do Ill Intrigued Live Mentality More Percent Poverty Read Seven Seventy Somewhere Themselves
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
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

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