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

Jerry Garcia

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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Drug Experiment Fortunate History Legal Little Music Time
In my own musical existence I don’t feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician.
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Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player 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
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
… 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 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
The thing about music is that nobody listens to it unless it’s real. I don’t think that you can fool anybody for too long in music. And you certainly can’t fool everybody.
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Anybody Certainty Everybody Fool Listen Long Music Useless
See, there’s only two theaters, man that are set up pretty groovy all around for music and for smooth stage changes, good lighting and all that – the Fillmore and The Capitol Theatre. And those are the only two in the whole country.
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Around Capitol Country Fillmore Grovy Man Pretty Smooth Stage Theatre Whole

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