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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.

Jerry Garcia

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The MUSIC is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.
JERRY GARCIA

Danger Guitar Important Love Most Music Play Thing
What a long strange trip it’s been.
JERRY GARCIA

Beem Long Strange Trip
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
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Choose Constant Evil Lesser Still Two
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Ahead Few Good Human Life Move Race Simple Step
I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It’s mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that.
JERRY GARCIA

Catch Change Consciousness Everything Happen Important Matter Mistsly Thing
… 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.’
JERRY GARCIA

Around Band Candidate Dead Everyone Grateful Great Like New Nobody Our Say
I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
JERRY GARCIA

Able Adventure Being Country Dead Grateful Kind Large Out Represent Spirit Think
We didn’t invent the Grateful Dead, the crowd invented the Grateful Dead.
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Crowd Dead Grateful Invent
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Human Light Little People Possibly Religious Repress Unhappy
You can’t repeat things because each time is different. The universe has changed. Everything has changed.
JERRY GARCIA

Change Each Everything Repeat Thing Time Universe
We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
JERRY GARCIA

Everybody Licorice Like People Really
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Being Best Earth Existence Feel Guitar Like Musical Own Player Thing
People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that’s left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.
JERRY GARCIA

Bankrupt Celebrate Context Religion Something
Playing in a group, I’m tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That’s just me getting older. I’m not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.
JERRY GARCIA

Anything Get Guitar Less More Music Play Player Tend Think Virtuoso
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.
JERRY GARCIA

Bit Context First Fragment Human Moral Piece Rather Religion Superstructural

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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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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